When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.