[Q]: she turned and walked toward the driver 's door . bud skirted around the truck and jumped in the passenger side , saying , '' if it 's what i think , there 's something at wheeler creek you 'll want to see . '' '' how come you 're so serious all of a sudden ? '' '' cass , everything i 've been doing to get to get close to you is...

[A]: serious

[Q]: never once had there been a thought originating in his mind that he should check out such a place , and his total knowledge of these kinds of places was derived from movie scenes set in dance clubs . he could n't understand the appeal of immersing oneself in an environment where the music was so loud it was impossible to talk , and the crowd so thick it was impossible to walk . not to mention the expense of even entering the building coupled with the cost of...

[A]: drinks

[Q]: there was a long silence in the kitchen , stil immaculate - except for the corpse of the woman who 'd cleaned it . '' you just admitted i could n't have rammed that whisk down her throat , '' patsy said , shaking her head as if i were an unreasonable child . '' you did n't kil her with the...

[A]: whisk

[Q]: weber had said that they would n't be able to access the code like they normally could-and a quick check proved her right-but the world around them still had that overall feel of the code : the blurry edge of a building here and there , the static-like quality of some of the clouds in the sky , small sections of the road where you could see pixels if you looked hard enough . not even the greatest programmer caught everything , and often they left glitches on purpose . make it too realistic and people could really get screwed up in the head . except for lifeblood deep , of course . all the rules changed when it came to lifeblood...

[A]:
deep