Before law schol, I had been training asa tri-athelete. I used whatever extra time I had left to resume my training.To be accurate, I threw myself in...o my training regimen with a religiouszeal. In the two years since the break up, I had pushed my body to thepeak of perfection. At the age of 37, I was not bad looking. That is whatmade it harder for everyone to accpt that I wasn't seeing anyone. In fact,I wasn't even close to seeing anyone. Court reporters, and secretaries,that new me tried. Before the dreams could start, a low hum filled the compartment, and a silver shell surrounded her sleeping body. The shell raised up above the bunk, and silently vanished.Around the ship, the other sleeping crew began to vanish, one by one. Smaller shells removed log books, personal effects, and seemingly random items. As the now-unoccupied quarters were cleaned out, crew members who were still awake began to stop moving, their eyes glazed over, and shells began to form around them as. A familiar thing, a blush. I seem to do it all the time. You’d think I’d get used to the feeling.Despite the appearances from outside, this room was far from deserted. It’s just that most people were congregated at the far end, standing around a couch, which had three people sitting on it. I looked longingly at that empty chair, set off against one wall of the room; but my curiosity got the better of me, and I drifted in the direction of the knot of people. I heard a giggle as I got closer, and. “You know that spell?” he asked after I had finished.“Of course, remember that I grew up on a number of farms and there were always equipment problems. If not one on our farm, then on the farm of one of our neighbors. The spell works on cars and trucks as well. Someone was always having a problem,” I reminded him, as I started the tractor, which fired right up now. I turned it off with just a thought after a couple of minutes.“Do you have any idea what it would have cost me to have a repairman.