"Hey, you can't focus your mind perpetually on the skies. You need to keep an eye on the ground." Yes. Maybe I should study geology?" Cathy said with ... smile, not letting go of me."You know, if you weren't so pretty, I'd call you a geek!" We've been teasing each other, and I thought she'd tease me right back.Her eyes went wide. "Really! You really think I am pretty?" She was not playing. I glanced at Pamela and she nodded. She didn't seem jealous at all.I softened my voice. "Cathy, you are. Die Abst?nde in denen der Stoff schillerte wurden k?rzer, bis dasschillern blieb.Was zum Teufel war das?Ich bekam Panik und wollte aus diesen St?ck Stoff heraus, doch irgendwiewar es mir unm?glich, hinaus zu schl?pfen.DasSchillern ?bertrug sich auf mich und meine Panik stieg von Minute zuMinute,a B?r der Schock ?ber das was ich sah lie? mich einfach nur stummzuschauen.Zuerst merkte ich, das etwas auf meinem Kopf nicht stimmte, den mir fielendie haare ins Gesicht. ver?rgert blie? ich sie wieder. .. Dead?" I asked him finally. He was sitting on the bed, touching me, touching the dress and looking at me."Wha ... What?" The dress, the way you want me to lie here, not moving, not talking ... I'm dead, right?" No ... No, you're not. I ... I ... just want to look at you first," he replied haltingly, looking for the words."Making love in the cemetery." That was ... Different." I am dead." I closed my eyes and said nothing more.I could not tell you why I did it then, though I have my. " He did so."They want to talk to me?" asked Meiersdottir. "I just bet they do. I'll do it for a little, listen to all their good advice, if we have time, but it's really up to us, isn't it? You and me?" To you, Amanda," he said as he took up the food packet she'd made ready. "Yesterday was my day. I learned what I needed for my own purposes—the purposes of my mission. Now it is your show, your expertise; I can but observe—" Oh, bullshit, Carlos," she cut him off. "You and me. We're the.