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"I suppose Miss Wells told you about my request, then?"

Miss Wellsoh Alice I cut the sandwich in half and turned to walk the knife over to the sink She was still there, watching me expectantly, when I walked back over "Yes, she did I’m surprised you even asked"

"Why?"

"Do I really have to remind you about what happened the last time he saw you?" I asked "You’re lucky you walked aith your life"

Finally, a crack appeared "Clancy would never kill me He’s not capable of it I realize how deeply troubled he is, but it’s because he was never able to get the emotional help he needed after he left that camp"

"Plenty of us went into those camps," I said "Not all of us turned out like hi for it to feel cohten to uilt

"Yes," I said coldly She doesn’t believe reed with the rehabilitation caram, even before it turned into what it is today," Dr Gray said "I have never liked n policy, nor can I comprehend the extreive me the facility and materials I need to perform the procedure on o back to him in a heartbeat I would do that, for Clancy"

I almost felt sorry for her The sie us all in the sa small and terrified, once you stepped outside of the electric fence, you didn’t just stand up tall one day and resu the desperation you’d had to make yourself invisible If you spent your tier and helplessness, that rage carried over; you took it with you into your new life

It was disturbing to me how clearly I could see Clancy’s point now His mother really had no idea what they had done to him at Thurmond How could someone who participated in, or at least viewed, the research conducted on the Psi kids have no conception of the kind of pain or hu hiht?" I asked "Not in the way that really matters to you"

"He won’t be able to influence anyone," she insisted "He’ll come back to hih at

"Taking away his ability wouldn’t take away his desire to try to control others," I said And it sure as hell wouldn’t cure hirier than he already is" And hate you that much more

"I knohat’s best for him," she said "He needs the treatment, Ruby--and, more than that, he needs his fah for me to hear he is--I need to see it Please Just for a ht, didn’t I? Can’t this be a show of good faith?"