Couldn't things just stay the same for a little while until I grew up and understood the way they worked?

Just one thing, could you leave that set of keys with us?

And they moved her in a way only true things could.

That will give him greater pain than any thing else could, I believe.

So could all the things we've tried to avoid.

"But I never understood how such a small thing could possibly."

It was said that in the desert strange things could and did happen.

The reality, the implication that such things could and did happen, had always happened, scared him.

To no one else in the world could such a thing have happened, least of all to the other two.

What better thing could a cat like me do with his life?