he said he was going to kick your butt till it turned black and blue ! `` i'm- '' when her voice squeaked , jane cleared her throat and tried again . we were over at a friends house . i 'd only ever been truly happy there . in fact , what she wanted to do was throw herself onto the grass and kick and scream for a while . at a great height the owl let the snake fall , and twisting in mid-air it fell to hit on the rocks below . 