Minds of Men (The Psyche of War Book 1) by Kacey Ezell

Author:Kacey Ezell [Ezell, Kacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Theogony Books
Published: 2017-11-07T07:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Ten

Josef decided they would make camp there in the trees that ringed the clearing. Lina knew he didn’t realistically think any other surviving members of the bomber crew would turn up, but he figured it didn’t hurt to be close, just in case. And Lina also knew he didn’t want to take the American psychic back until she’d had a chance to be thoroughly interrogated by Lina herself. His fear was that if they brought the girl back and turned her over to the party leadership, or even to the Luftwaffe command, she would be lobotomized before he’d had a chance to show how useful she could be as a source of intelligence.

But for that, he needed Lina to get inside the Ami girl’s head. And that was proving difficult. Lina still couldn’t believe how much of her attention the damping hood required. She hadn’t even been able to help with setting up the camp. Rather, she’d simply watched as the American girl was tied hand and foot (which, apparently, was painful. She’d been badly injured, enough that the pain spiked through the damping hood to Lina), then carried over to the spot Josef had selected for a camp. Lina had followed closely, her eyes only half-focused on the world around her, as the majority of her consciousness was engaged within.

The psychic damping hood worked by enforcing a sensory feedback loop on its victim. However, it required another psychic to double the psychic sensing inputs back on to the victim so she couldn’t break her consciousness loose. It prevented the victim from transmitting or receiving from everyone except she who held the loop. It also overwhelmed her with her own psychic power. It was effective, but it was a lot of work for Lina.

By the time the sun had started to set, the men had a camp set up, complete with a tent for Lina and her captive. The other American prisoners found themselves blindfolded and tied to separate trees so that they could not communicate with one another. Horst stood silent guard over them both.

“Let us take the American psychic into the tent,” Josef said out loud to Lina, startling her into a little jump.

“All right,” Lina said, her voice weak. Josef nodded to young Willi, and he lifted the American girl in his arms. Josef gestured to Lina to go first, Willi and the Ami girl next, and then he followed them into the largest canvas tent they’d brought.

Inside, Lina could see they’d set up a camp bed, a table, and several chairs. Willi set the girl down on a rug near the bed and took the precaution of tying her bound hands to the bedpost. Then he gave both Josef and Lina a respectful nod and left, letting the tent flap fall closed behind him.

Lina turned to Josef, and for the first time, she let the despair she felt show on her face.

“She is so strong,” she breathed, sinking down to a seat on the camp bed.

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