My wife works with kids and one of my kids works fast food so it’s inevitable. I ended up with a stomach thing which made me feel like I was going t...o barf if I moved. That lasted about 24 hours then my voice started getting that I dare you to talk because I have a thousand razors waiting heaviness. I took a day off. I knew if I tried to work I’d blow my voice out and be down a few.The flu and related rarely touch me at all, I was surprised to get that much. My wife and kids got hammered. I was. "Fighting isn't the way!" I told the Brute. "We've got to be neutral -neutral, do you hear?"The Brute nodded, smiled and extended her hand, whick I shook graciously.Suddenly, my own body crumbled to dust and I felt myself go into her.Now I was in control of the Brute for good! I raised my arms to the skyand shouted:"Thank you, Margraeth, thank you!"Then I woke up - and realized I was indeed the Brute. Now I wouldn'thave to worry about changing my form when I got mad anymore. As I roseto my. The press is just guessing. Either that, or they're making the threats and then writing about them." I hope you're being careful," said Chastity."No more than usual," said Ethan, stepping out of the elevator. "I survived six years covering wars in the Middle East. I'm not going to start jumping at shadows because some aggrieved Christians don't like what I do for a living. Besides, the ones that make death threats are never the ones that actually kill people." Even as he said it, Ethan knew he. He's a good man."The telephone call from the sheriff last evening is an example, I thought. He didn't need to give me partial credit for the break in the investigation that had led to the identification and subsequent arrest of the meth cooker in the county, and it pleased me that he agreed that any credit I was due would remain between the sheriff and me. Yep, Sheriff Kenneth Hansen is a good man.Larry nodded. "Yes, I think he is," he said quietly. "It's confusing. Outward appearances mean.