"Where are you from, James?" she started. "Where did you teach? Where did you go to college? Why did you come down here to Bates?"James answered each ...nterrogative as it was posed. On the last one, he followed Nathan's advice."I realized that I had to switch to the public schools for the retirement and benefits. The Catholic Schools just can't give those." There were traces of nods from the audience. "I'm not getting any younger," he added, laughing at his own joke. His audience politely. Barb, Rox and I have the responsibility to find the money to make it happen. After the Rites Committee cut the budget, we still need another three or four thousand dollars. To do it right, we need twice that much new money.We spent a few days tossing fund raising ideas around. They were pretty tame at first. We got beyond the bikini car washes and bake sales; they don't pay the kind of bucks we needed.Barb suggested a cheesecake calendar. We looked into that, and only found six women willing to. It was not good." She wraps her arms around her waist upset by the thought. "Till 50 years ago we did have some radios. If they worked we didn't hear anything. And they finally all broke down. We don't have parts so..." I get it," I say breaking in. "No contact. But someone is still trying to kill the Kindred," I remind her, as we rejoined the main group."But why would anyone want to do that?" Gwen says in disbelief, that anyone could be so cold."Good question. I can only assume your gifted. Back in high school, this old trail had been the prime place to have Friday night parties. It was isolated and could not be seen from the main road. The perfect spot for a kegger and Liv's last desperate trick. She prayed she was doing the right thing.Her thoughts were interrupted when the Porsche struck a large rock embedded in the dirt road. A good-sized chunk of the air dam ripped off with a heart wrenching sound.O'Donnell couldn't believe the pursuit was taking so long. She was clever, but.