I wasn’t, I’m, uh, not that way.’ He hesitated then and she let him go to see if he had anything else to say: ‘I want to tell you how totally ...rateful I am for the way that you always help with Wally. ‘ He thought for a moment and said: ‘I swear, what he said in the bedroom just now was more than half total reality for him, and not just the murmuring of a sleepy child.’ He seemed to be running out of gas at that point, and Chris decided to act. Charlie had been standing for all of this. He glared atBurt as he ran through the preliminary sections. He had no empathy in hispose or expression. He would clearly have sentenced Burt to hang if ithad been allowed by the law.Burt just stood in a bewildered daze as the first witness was called -the Earl himself.The old man stood and answered the questions he was posed, painting apicture of the events the night before last. Throughout he glared inclear anger at Burt but Burt couldn't face him. He hung his head in shameas his crimes were. We got back to the house, which was very nice and must of had 8 or 9 rooms, and she introduced me as a friend from work to the caregiver and said they needed to go take care of him for a bit. I went to sit in the living room and watched some TV until she came back in after looking after him and saying goodbye to the caregiver. She said he was in bed for the evening now and she would just have to check on him from time to time, but he is unable to walk.I asked her if she needed to go shower or. A living body would stand out like a bonfire to the sensor.”“Yeah,” he growled, “but we’re not on Earth, and not all living things are warm blooded, either. What about snakes and things like that?”The part about them not being on Earth gave her pause, but she responded with, “Warm or cold blooded, it would still register as a temperature change, no matter how slight, and would show up.” With a sigh, she continued, “I didn’t come prepared to examine something like this and consequently don’t.