" Ms.Koopman winced slightly, realizing Kimberly's use of female pronouns forher doll-uncle had rubbed off on her. While she listened to Ariannatalk...about the big conch shell she'd found at the beach last summer, shestarted writing a note to Kimberly's mother, telling her that Kimberlyhad brought her uncle to school and recommending that she not let hertake him out of the house again. She'd hate to have him get lost.Being a doll for a year would be bad enough even with a loving niece toplay. I remembered that call Mr. Steinberg had given onthe day he told me about the gift. I think he called me a possible ten,which meant that I probably was top of the foodchain. I couldn?t helpbut feel like some sort of superhero.The more interesting part was, that the gift could be developed throughmeditation and exercises. Meditation to prepare the mind for thedifferent tasks and exercise to think the right thing in the rightmoment. At two o clock in the morning I forced myself to let the. Jake didn't know who had originally developed the space suit that we used, but it was not Utorian. Oh, well, it was the fact that it worked that was important. One day we would run into the inventors and would thank them then.Once we had the second space battleship, the Abraham Lincoln, B-2, ready, we launched our campaign against the spaceships orbiting the Earth and stealing our trees. The first one we approached refused to surrender. They started shooting at us, and we launched two of our. Nevertheless, they were given equal rights along with everybody else and were provided with replicators so that they could move into a more comfortable living standard.The invading Wasps had been easily eliminated, since they had just arrived and had not had time to establish themselves. Most of the spaceships were still in orbit, so their propulsion systems were quickly destroyed and the pyramids were pitched into the sun. The few that were already on the ground were mopped up by the spacetubs.