Judgement and sentenceKate made them take a longer walk aroundthe inside of the building after they?d eaten lunch. The pills and the ointmenteased the...pain but walking was still an uncomfortable experience especially forRobert. Two other naked couples they met, spoke with them. Both were horrifiedat the sight of the bruises that now decked Bob and Mel?s bodies but onecouple, Jeff and Rachel, expressed the view that Henry?s therapy had changedtheir lives for the better. Their bums showed the. " I was fully dressed from waist level down but, not wanting to mess up my blouse, was only wearing my bra on top."Um... before you... no... it doesn't matter." Mike started to say something but halted mid-sentence, once again looking embarrassed."What were you going to say?" I asked."It doesn't matter." Came his reply."No. Go ahead. You know you can ask me anything. Don't be embarrassed." I encouraged him."Since you've only got your bra on would you take it off and let me see your breasts.". Melinda nodded. "Me too. I've never seen ... I've seen death, Daium's dad, but never people dying like that." Hannah lowered her own head. They could argue that they in fact didn't see what they all thought they saw, didn't see two people, an adult and a child, flung into the void as the Squirrel's machine failed. They could do that. That would not help them with what was to come, though. Not help them steel themselves for whatever was needed to stop these mad experiments. No. They had to use. ‘My injuries were so bad the medics agreed the intention had been to kill me, and that I would die eventually. I was in a coma, and I remained in a coma at some level for nearly a year. I could hardly have told you where I was, then, could I? ‘You said something about a letter. How could I write a letter if I was comatose? ‘Before I came round, the doctors decided I was not going to recover, I had been unconscious so long. But there were no relatives, no wife, to give permission to turn off.