IVROCHELLE HAD LEFT HER “beater” truck way out in the boonies. She had told me a bit of the story, how she had come out here to find someone she was supposed to help, only to find a cyclone with some clear sphere inside it - but a sick man on the floor of that sphere. When they returned to Hami's saloon to get him treatment, she left that truck of hers out here. Curiosity, as well as my own generous nature brought me back out here to see the scene and recover that truck. I'd come as far as I could using the roads and old riverbeds and washes. Then simply translated back to human form to walk the last few yards. The truck was no worse off than usual. Of course, she hadn't rolled up the windows, so there was a layer of dust inside it that matched the outside. Must of been some storm ther

