The Knowing by Ninie Hammon

Author:Ninie Hammon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ninie Hammon
Published: 2016-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Ruby Walsh saw it all. Peeked out the door in the men’s toilet in the recreation room and watched the whole thing.

Ok, not all of it.

She didn’t see the part where the patient everybody called BB, for Blubber Butt, went and found Nurse Phillips. Ruby’d been hiding behind the urinals, hadn’t yet got the nerve to crack the door open an inch so she could see what was happening.

But she did see the part where he dragged the nurse by the hair into the room—her screaming and crying—and threw her down on her knees in front of the nurse’s station.

“You’re sorry now, ain’t ya,” he yelled at her. His voice was strange, made an odd rumbling sound in his throat like Ruby hadn’t ever heard anybody make. “Sorry you got me locked away in solitary, left me to rot in that dungeon, couldn’t talk to nobody through them rock walls. Say you’re sorry!”

She cried, said she was sorry, begged him not to hurt her, said she had little kids, went on and on. But the man in black didn’t have any patience for her. He reached out, grabbed the nurse’s head and twisted it on her shoulders—Ruby heard the crack sound—and the nurse went limp. He kept twisting, though, until her head was pointed backwards, her face all purple and her eyes bugging out.

The one-eyed-man was an Eliminator, all right. He’d come for Ruby, but she’d outsmarted him—kept a metal bedpan on her head so he couldn’t find her as she peeked out of the bathroom, watching.

She’d known The Force Supreme would send an Eliminator after she’d blocked its control beams with the foil lining in the cap she wore all day—nurses wouldn’t let her sleep in it. Ruby had seen him in time to hide, though. She had sneaked out onto the roof to catch a smoke like she always did on Wednesdays after her sister visited the day before and slipped her a pack.

She was sitting on the roof tiles outside the glow of the lighted sign out front that said “East Texas Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Texarkana” when she saw the car.

A service road wound around to a gate in the back of the stone fence surrounding the facility and she watched a car drive down that road—with its headlights turned off. It parked in the mesquite grove under where she was sitting, just drove right into it. She heard the brush and dry limbs scrape down the side of the car with a sickening there-goes-the-paint-job sound.

The man who got out of the car was dressed in black, head to foot. Even had a black patch over one eye. He walked along the base of the wall until he found a place where overhanging tree limbs formed deep puddles of darkness. Then he jumped up to the top of the fifteen foot wall. In one leap! That’s when Ruby knew for sure he was an Eliminator! She almost wet herself, crawled as

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