Worse for you, she almost says. Instead she shifts that thumbnail a half-inch to the side and digs in harder.
"Fine." Tight and frustrated, she abruptly gives in. "They kept us in a cell, chained to the wall. Sometimes it was dark for days, or bright at all hours. Sometimes we were fed, sometimes not. The interrogator assigned to me would heat the blade of a penknife in the lantern flame until it was red hot and burn me with it." She speaks briskly, matter-of-fact, holding eye contact. "First the soles of my feet, then elsewhere. Each time, she'd pick some specific part to focus on. Occasionally we'd be healed so they could start again. One day, she stabbed me twice in the stomach and didn't have the wounds healed until I nearly died of infection.
"She also had magic and favored paralysis spells. She would hold me in a vise grip, completely still, sometimes so that I couldn't even blink or breathe. When I passed out from lack of air, she would wake me and begin again. Sometimes she would stab or burn me while paralyzed. You're going to ask if I killed her. I didn't get the chance, but I'm not going back there just for that and neither are you. I've told you what you wanted to know, and now we are done with this."
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Date: 2021-11-13 04:24 am (UTC)"Fine." Tight and frustrated, she abruptly gives in. "They kept us in a cell, chained to the wall. Sometimes it was dark for days, or bright at all hours. Sometimes we were fed, sometimes not. The interrogator assigned to me would heat the blade of a penknife in the lantern flame until it was red hot and burn me with it." She speaks briskly, matter-of-fact, holding eye contact. "First the soles of my feet, then elsewhere. Each time, she'd pick some specific part to focus on. Occasionally we'd be healed so they could start again. One day, she stabbed me twice in the stomach and didn't have the wounds healed until I nearly died of infection.
"She also had magic and favored paralysis spells. She would hold me in a vise grip, completely still, sometimes so that I couldn't even blink or breathe. When I passed out from lack of air, she would wake me and begin again. Sometimes she would stab or burn me while paralyzed. You're going to ask if I killed her. I didn't get the chance, but I'm not going back there just for that and neither are you. I've told you what you wanted to know, and now we are done with this."