"The policeman nodded and walked out into the corridor."I'll be back in the morning, okay?" Rob bent over the bed and kissed her gently. Nicole's eyes...began to close of their own accord and she murmured something unintelligible. "Love you," he whispered into her ear, but she was already asleep."Come on now, you need to get some rest too. You'll be no good to her if you end up back in here!" The nurse waggled her finger at him and Rob took the hint. He left the room with a last lingering glance. "It's not how it looks, honestly!" But his protests were worthless. He could tell from the expression on Laura's face that she wasn't going to tolerate any of his usual execrable excuses. "Okay," he finally said, happy to finally unload his dirty secret from his painfully constricted chest. "I admit it. I wanted you to wear this costume so I could take advantage of you." But?" she said, wanting him to finish the sentence."But now I'm wearing it." And?" And you're going to use the device on me,. In this way they command even going to the land, which is a thing none of us may command, not in that way. Is there not good in that?”Kitik thinks long on what I say. When he speaks at last it is to ask me do I think he is right not to learn human talk and human way.“You say it is shadow,” I tell him. “You are right. It is not for us. But all shadow is not bad. I think there is good in shadow as well as bad. There is good in these humans’ shadow. Not all is good, perhaps much is bad, I do not. " He already told me all about it. He and Deloris wasn't doin' nothin 'cept talkin' and she ain't just a ho', either." Yeah? Name someone who hadn't hit that? Even you've been with her yerself!"Darryl was surprised. He didn't know his sister knew he'd slept with the woman. He also knew that she was right about Deloris, but he wasn't about to admit it."Well that doesn't mean Shawn would've; he's not that kind of man. You know?" Yeah, I know all too well," she breathed, without actually saying.