I could see men watching her every move and I’m sure that I did puff up a bit with pride. We danced and laughed and were having a wonderful time whe... I noticed that it was almost 9PM. I told her that we needed to go, that her birthday surprise was coming up. We left the club and I drove to the hotel. She grinned at me when we pulled up and asked, ‘What have you done?’ ‘I just thought we could stay in a nice place tonight in honor of your birthday and you should get spoiled now and again. Nipper's inverters checked out fine using the Star Freighter diagnostics.Then Shantilly read off the part numbers and discovered one was from aRiticulan Truck. They quickly reset the diagnostics and she and Keenatold him he was lucky that it had synced at all.The Riticulan shop that had put it in hadn't logged it into themaintenance records as a temporary fix, and the Lyconian shop hadn'tthought to check part numbers after the inverter had been replaced byanother shop.Now the truck was running. I can show you how good I am with my...stick." Would either of you lasses have a wee bit of gold on you I could be borrowing? I feel the need to use some magic up on this jackass," Erin said. The others had noticed that she was acquiring an Irish brogue that made her even cuter than she already was. Erin required gold to use magic and she was very new at being a leprechaun and her magic was almost non-existent. Dannie leaned over to Erin and whispered. "Let us take care of him, we don't need. During the short ride back to the hotel, Toby broached the subject of the impending Sa'arm occupation of Earth. During the conversation it became clear to Leslie that she was the only person in the car with a CAP score below six-point-five. While it was depressing in some respects, it was encouraging at the same time. The more sponsors than could be included, the bigger the colony and the better the chance they had for success.Both Charlie and Darlene expressed a desire to leave Earth, but not.