"A guy called me," he said in a dead voice.

"I killed her," he said in a dead voice to nobody at all.

"You killed two of them," she said in a dead voice.

I'll go now,' she told them in a dead voice.

Then he leaned forward to the monitor and spoke in a dead voice.

She looked down at the ground and said in a dead voice, "I made a promise."

"Let me put this so you can understand it," he said in a gentle, dead voice.

"It is coming," the Council said in the man's dead voice.

The words came in a dead voice through a closed jaw.

He spoke in a dead voice, without looking at anybody or anything.