it was brett 's voice in a loud whisper close to her ear . too many lives were at stake if what she had told him was true . the old man was thrown forward . then she tried flipping through pages and all the pages stuck together . `` when my grandmother was only a little girl a man came from earth who was a doctor - that 's a sort of healer . but this will help you avoid that misery , right ? '' its a bunch of bull crap , bobby . 