Just as Jesse closed the doors behind him, the wind came up again. Visibility dropped to inches as the soft powder snow swirled again into the air. He...fumbled around to the nylon line tied between the house and the horse barn, then followed the line back to the front porch.Once inside, he shucked the heavy outer clothing and made his way to the kitchen to put on another pot of coffee. He looked over at the couch. Marie Ford was still asleep. His lips made a half smiling grimace.Jesse shook his. Ain’t nobody going to make that right with the egg. I suppose make lively might be possible ... but not if ones intent is to make the dead alive ... for sure he’s not going to wake up refreshed or get going again.Yup ... stir up trouble is the only part of liven that fits.I needed a better word.How about make David as mad as a wet hen. That way I don’t have to consider the body farther up the beach.But I am going to have to deal with half a dozen men tearing down the wharf as fast as they could. They had never considered the college and university market for the watch birds, but the schools had embraced them with enthusiasm. The watch birds made great advertising to parents who were concerned about the safety of their children on campus.“I know,” Otterly said. “The school already has watch birds. I don’t know why you want me to take more.”“They have generic watch birds, that will alert the campus police to a situation. Your watch birds are programmed to defend you,” Sherry said.“I get. She fell right on the bed and slept. That was fine with me. I was working on a Tennessee Williams paper and anyway, if she had plans to give me the third degree about what I’d said the night before, then her nap was just what I wanted, a reprieve. The interrogation might have been inevitable, but I would take whatever break I could get.At six-thirty she came padding out of the bedroom in her cute stocking feet and the clothes she’d worn to school. She yawned her way through, “I need a shower,”.