Ann went to work and had no trouble from Dacia getting a week off. Shewas cagy with Dacia as to why she needed the time, wanting it to be asurprise.T...hree days later Jack drove Ann into the Doctor Holt's clinic. Jackheld her hand until they wheeled her into the OR. Three hours later Annwoke up feeling as if she'd been hit by a truck. It hurt to breathe.She looked down to see the hospital gown moving up and down slowly withevery breath."Oh, my god," she though as she processed the evidence of. ‘It all seemed so innocent at the time—it still does in a way,’ Nathan answered. ‘I never saw this coming, Bob.’ ‘I know, I know!’ a tired Jackson sat back in his chair and sighed deeply. ‘So you were trying to back-door the tutoring program fees and got Ed Cassidy to run interference for you on the behalf of the union?’ ‘That’s about the size of it, Bob,’ Nathan admitted. ‘Right motive—wrong method, Nathan,’ Jackson scolded. ‘If you had come to me I could have gone to the Chamber of Commerce. The more, the merrier, and we'll be glad to help where we can. There's one great old dog musher over in Warsaw that's forgotten more about dog mushing than we'll ever know, and he's agreed to help where he can, too; after all, he got us started."So, to help encourage things, the Spearfish Lake Humane Society has agreed to sponsor a special class in the endurance race. The Pound Puppies class will be limited to a five-dog maximum, and all dogs are to be either strays, or survivors of the dog. Sighing, he shifted his gaze to the four hundred and seven contenders preparing themselves in the arena. “Soon we will know who has the potential to become an Ascended Elite and if; perhaps, among them there is already a hidden gem”.“Don’t expect too much from a group of cultivators stuck on a mud ball in practically nowhere, Cardinal Northstar”. His Young Eminence scoffed.Although he paid a measure of attention to the tryouts, he frankly was not interested in them at all, much less in the.