`` let 's go for a swim , '' i suggested , thinking it might cool me down . we are supposed to be capable of anything . `` it is urgent that i reach a blackbird . '' how could she save the others ? she grunts again , pushing the straw out of her mouth with her tongue . then , not long ago , all her careful tending broke through and the boy blossomed . i shall see to it personally , replied the commander . he had failed in some way ; that was obvious . 