082806 #eel What he meant by "bullet" was "key"--meaning, I had a place to stay, or more precisely, a place I could keep scavengers and marauders out of, and an extended group who looked out for each other. What he meant by "murder" was that he had been charged with murder, back in a hazy past the meaning or location or present relevance of which was unclear--except that, according to him anyway, it made his basic survival here, in this insular, anarchic, mysteriously dilapidated world at least a little bit more difficult.