That little period of honesty in the Corps was working like a blight to destroy all of my best anti-social tendencies. He grunted and made a vicious stab at me that brushed my sleeve. How tragic, this sympathetic soul said, hes still warm. The police undoubtedly had the entire town sealed and were tearing it apart building by building looking for the truck. We discovered this when the cruiser was later found drifting and inert, parsecs away. However it had not traveled across countless light years because I had just made it myself that morning. As the nose plugs and cheek pads slipped into place and the dye seeped into my hair I sighed and relaxed with happiness, an old warhorse getting back on the job. Put the gun away.