if you want to share a house with a bunch of eighteen-year-olds . '' there was only a half-hour left until the oxygen would run out . her voice had risen to a scream . `` you have no lion to call yet , and you have not joined yourself to the local rex . i had barely said two words to her . one thing that i hated was wearing heels . my car was sitting where i left it , covered with new snow . staring at her , i allow myself to drift again . he rose as if to leave . 