I screamed. “I’m only eleven years old, and some of this stuff has got me very upset!” “There’s no need to get excited, Victor,” Charlie said. “Now just tell me what’s on your mind.” “Lizards,” I said. “Lizards are on my mind, and pod people, and you—you’ve been turning up everywhere!” “I know quite a lot about the lizards,” Charlie said, “somewhat less about the pod people as you call them. As to me turning up everywhere, I’ve always done that. It’s you who have taken to turning up lately. We were certain to meet once you started that.” “Well, if you know so much, why aren’t you excited, or at least worried?” I asked. I hadn’t been bothered too much by the thought of the pod people invading the earth until that moment. “Don’t the pod people worry you?” “If you mean the pod people in that old science-fiction movie, they don’t worry me at all,”
