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After, we moved on to my imprisonment While I’ about, she just listened casually without taking a single note Kynan drilled me hard for all the nasty details

“Where were you taken?”

“Not sure I was hooded the entire ti distance”

“Did they take you to a city or suburban structure?”

“Se, I believe, based on the sounds of aniot to see outside the less room they had me in”

“Describe the decor in the room”

“Wood floor, plaster walls with cracks, a table with two chairs in the ainst one ith a pitcher of water They drank from it, but they never offered me any”

And so it went before Kynan eased into the nitty-gritty

“What methods of torture did they employ on you and how often?” Kynan had asked without any noticeable inflection in his voice This was research, which it was obvious he hoped to learn from

“Several tihly nine days as best I could tell,” I said “Sleep deprivation the entire time, starvation, loud s”

Succinctly and without emotion, I rattled off the details I had been trained to withstand torture—to a degree Everyone cracked eventually There was no shaive the, and to learn all about the ene so I know I succeeded on those fronts, ive Luckily, they believedme across the desert to toss me into a hole until I could be useful in some other way

Kynan then asked about couards, and whether I was able to pick up any other intel I told hi annoyed when he soit tactic to help check for veracity or to poke for additional memories

At the end, he’d thanked me for my time and reiterated I was on desk duty until I co with Dr Ellery She would be the one ould release me back to full duty

And so, I’ toward her office

She’s sitting behind her desk, peering at so on her computer She has a set of bookcases behind her, which are loaded with books—all psychiatry based, I’ chairs flank one ith a table and a larateful she doesn’t have the cliché couch