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Surprising someone is not always the smartest thing to do. If you don’t know them, then you’re asking for trouble. You never know what others have been through and how it affected them. I’ve seen the nicest people become not so nice when startled.
KEVIN MURDOCK, COLLECTED SAYINGS
A few days after Zeke’s sharing, the normal routine at the medical facility was disrupted. Annie and Zeke were outside the facility, gathering firewood.
“I would like to talk to Murdock,” Raymond Tutt yelled out, from a distance. “I come for peace, not trouble.”
“Tutt is here to talk to you,” Murdock heard inside his mind, from Annie.
“What do you want, Tutt?” Murdock asked testily as he stormed past Annie, who was standing defiantly with her hand on the hilt of her twelve-incher. He glanced at Zeke as he
