this is the blood that has flowed out of thunderclap and threatens to drown our side of the world , he thinks , and it will not be for untold years that he will finally rediscover his time inside the ball and put this memory together with eddie 's dream and tell his com-padres , as they sit in the turnpike breakdown lane at the end of the night , that he was wrong , that he had been fooled by the brilliance , coming as it did , so hard on the heels of thunderclap 's shadows .