I bet its supposed to be descended, hope that helps. Julia ----- Original Message ----- From: Siobhan To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:32 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I'm having trouble with one stuborn sentence Hi all. well since Bob has graciously answered every oh jeez not this question again, that I've put to him, i need someone else to hep who might've read the book. Here's the sentence as it is on thepage, I don't know what can be substituted in, there's no wayI can leave it as it is now. Sights and sounds and smells and touches c scended all around Georgia, and suddenly she couldn't get out of there fast enough. Thanks for any help.