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question than you know."
           "Oh yeah." Shanti commented with a cruel smile on her lips.  "Huge question."
           I was really getting concerned now.  Up till then he'd had no hesitation in answering any of my questions.  Had I asked something I wasn't supposed to?  Is this the scene where I get wacked for knowing too much?  Being new to alien species in general, I was really having trouble getting a read on either of them.  
           "I don't know if I should." Bara gave it thought.  "Y'see the Boss has this whole lesson plan he goes thru, and touches on the creation of all existence, and the time he saw God, our purpose in life, and all that jazz."
           "DorLek saw God?  Y'mean like he found Jesus' image on his toast one morning?" I was a little surprised at the statement.
           Giving a laugh at that, Bara waved a hairy hand to let me know how wrong I was.
           "Naw, I mean he actually saw the big guy at work for reals."
           From her perch Shanti scowled before rebuking Bara. "The Boss tells it better than you do."
           "I tell it pretty well, m'self." He gave his chest a thump with one of those big meaty fists of his.  
           "You're just gonna fuck it up.  You are a lousy story teller." Shaking her head, Shanti waited until he had turned away before giving me a playful wink.
           As I watched him lounge there in the pillow pit, with his shaggy hair askew, I had to make a conscious effort to remember that as a Timelord, Bara had more degrees than a university.  But in a room fulla people, he'd be the last one you'd peg as being an Editor.   He looked more like a homeless zoo exhibit than someone responsible for managing quindecillion souls. 
           "He tells it better.  You'll just mess it up." Shanti flashed me a smug grin as she continued to bait him.
           "Just tell me already." I was irritated.  No one likes to be in the dark about their wake, even if you have no idea what it is.
           "Alright." Nodding in agreement Bara sat up and looked me in the eye.  "Okay, but first you gotta tell me about that day you won your silver star." Bara turned it back on me.  Why he wanted to know about that day of all days was beyond me.
           "What about it?  I pulled a few guys outta danger while under fire, so what?" I shrugged it off, not sure why it was important.
           "What was going through your mind as you did it?" The big hairy guy asked me point blank.  There was the barest hint of a smirk on his face as he watched me intently.
           "Mostly I was thinking 'Gee, I hope they don't shoot my little brown ass with that RPG." My tone was involuntarily nasty.  It always was when that day was mentioned.
           "Classic denial." Shanti's words elicited a nod of agreement from Bara as the two of them shared a knowing look.
           "That all that was goin' thru yer mind that day?" Bara gave the barest hint of a smile as he spoke, leaning forward so he could look me in the eyes.
           Rising up to a sitting position, Sasquatch tapped my forehead with a great meaty finger. "You weren't afraid of dying because you had help up there, didn't ya?"
           I recoiled when I realized what he was getting at.  Then my mind automatically went into denial mode.
           "What?" I acted like I had no idea what he was talking about, but on the inside I was trying to figure out how he knew about the voices.  How the hell did he know about my imaginary friends?  I hadn't told a soul about them since I was six and learned about lobotomies.  All I ever wanted to be was normal like other kids, not some pariah with auditory hallucinations.  So over the years I had learned to keep a poker face each time the whisperings would tell me something about the person I just met, or warn me of impending danger.  As far as I was concerned, my insanity was my personal business.  I never even told DorLek about the voices