the gun left the mans hand and moved slowly through the air over the crowd . do you know how to do this ? i paused , listening to the line crackle , feeling like i was standing at the edge of a cliff . i did n't wait for him to speak . he had a laid-back demeanor and never made a hassle out of anything . oddly , he felt even more like an intruder than when he was invisible to her . `` you wound me , '' said the man , and he turned his pointed-tooth smile on the others . 