The Darkest Minds begins with Ruby picking weeds in Thurmond's garden. After erasing herself from Sam's mind, Ruby doesn't say a word to her or anyone else for a year. While there, she meets Sam, who becomes her first and only friend at Thurmond, before she accidentally wipes herself from her memory, too.
As those coded as orange and red are restrained, whilst those that are yellow, blue and green are not. When the man who is testing her discovers that she is an 'Orange', she uses her powers on him to convince him that she is a Green. After some chaos caused by some of the older and braver kids, she is ultimately carried inside, where she is made to wait so she can be color-coded. Out of fear, her mother then locked her in the garage and her dad contacted the police, however the Psi Special Forces got there first, taking her with them.Īfter spending a whole day on a bus, hungry and scared, with a group of other PSI kids captured by the special forces, they finally reach Thurmond, a facility made to "rehabilitate" the kids who survived IAAN, which developed dangerous abilities. When she woke up the next morning, on her tenth birthday, she discovered that her parents had no memory of her. That night, Ruby went into her parents' room and kissed them on the head as a way of apologising, however she unknowingly erased all their memories of her. Oblivious to the tense atmosphere, Ruby asked some questions about death, which ended up in another argument, which escalated quickly, scaring Ruby enough that she retreated into her room. The night before Ruby's tenth birthday, her parents got into an argument about her birthday celebration, which her father made her mother cancel. After Grace, numerous kids followed, reaching a point where half her class had died, and she was the only living kid in her block. Her first true interaction with the disease was when she witnessed Grace Somerfield, her classmate, die in the fourth grade. Ruby was, for the most part, oblivious to it due to the guiding hands of her parents and teacher.
Eventually, the first signs of IAAN (Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration) appeared. Ruby was born in Charlottesville, Virginia but raised in Salem, Virginia and had an average early childhood and was an average child.
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