Predestination Unknown by Tanya Chris

Author:Tanya Chris [Chris, Tanya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tanya Chris Publishing
Published: 2017-10-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Ezekiel!” I pounded out the back door of Rebecca Nurse’s house towards the barn. “Ezekiel!”

He emerged from the barn, his eyes wide in reaction to my yelling.

“They’re taking her.” I tugged on his arm, pulling him towards the house. “Mrs. Nurse. They’ve come to arrest her. Corwin and two big guys. I think one of them is the guard from the jail house.” I continued pulling on him, dragging him forward, trying to communicate the urgency. “Right now!” I said, since it didn’t seem to be coming across. “They’re in there right now!”

“Luther.” He dug in his heels. “I’ll not interfere with their duties.”

“Do you not get what I’m saying? They’re arresting Rebecca Nurse. They’re taking her to jail. They’re going to try her as a witch and they’re going to hang her.”

“She’ll not be hanged.”

“She will!”

I gave up on trying to get Ezekiel to help me. I’d have to rescue Mrs. Nurse myself. I could hold my own against two guys. No way Corwin would condescend to do his own dirty work. He’d fold as soon as I called his bluff.

“Luther!”

Now Ezekiel was chasing me, following me around the house to the front yard where the jailer and his sidekick were loading Mrs. Nurse into their wagon. They were at least handing her up onto the bench seat, not just chucking her into the back, but I refused to stand by and let them take her, gently or not.

“Luther!”

Ezekiel grabbed me and spun me. “You cannot. You cannot, Luther.” He had his hands on my upper arms, holding on hard enough that I couldn’t break free. “Please, don’t. Don’t. They’ll take you too.”

Behind me I heard horses nicker and then the rumble of rolling wheels.

“’Tis only temporary they take her. She’ll be freed soon enough.”

“She won’t be,” I told him.

“If she’s innocent of these charges, she will be. Let there be a trial. Let justice run its course. That is how a civilized society does, and I’ll not interfere with the process, no matter how I fear the outcome to be.”

“The outcome is she dies.”

He released me. “You assume the worst of us, Luther.”

“I’m not assuming. I know.”

He turned and walked with heavy footsteps back towards the barn.

“Ezekiel.” It was my turn to chase him.

“And you think so ill of us, you should not stay.”

“Ezekiel.” I spun him to face me. “I think no ill of you, not of you. I’ve never known anyone like you.” I raised my hand to touch his face, but he jerked away from me.

Fine. Fuck him. Fuck them all. He was right—why should I stay? I might be trapped in 1692, but I wasn’t trapped in Salem. Rebecca Nurse was going to die. They wouldn’t even have to hang her, most likely. A few days in that pestilential prison ought to do it. Did I really imagine I could change history single-handedly?

I started off—to where I couldn’t say, just down the road in the direction the wagon had gone. If I jogged,

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