he still carried the soft ball of rags i had made for him , squeezing it unobtrusively hundreds of times a day as he went about his business . `` will you bring me to the aquarium one time so i can watch you feed the otters ? '' she thanked the man with the camcorder and drifted quickly toward the museum entrance . her heart skipped a renegade beat before she was giving a sharp shake of her head . i have a hard time believing they would risk a cruiser on a little bucket like this . 