"Did Cal say why he wanted you to cover for him?"

"Maybe she went to the cemetery and something happened to her," Cal said.

"Thanks very much," Cal said after just a moment longer.

"I ran into some problems early in the day," Cal said.

"Fine," Cal said, although he couldn't really say whether the equipment had passed every possible test.

"They look a lot like the ones in the other picture except for location," Cal said.

"Thanks for talking to her," said Cal, trying to think fast enough to sound like nothing unusual had happened.

What Cal says is right - the closer they get, the better we like it.

Music has the power to release things, Cal had said, to make them fly.

"This'd better be important," Cal said when he came back on the line.