Spanners - The Fountain of Youth by Maas Jonathan
Author:Maas, Jonathan [Maas, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-04-10T16:00:00+00:00
THE INQUISITION
Adam woke up with a splitting headache and vomited soon thereafter. He had the wherewithal to aim away from himself, but the bile came slowly, and since he was tied to a chair, most of it ended up on his clothes. He looked around and noticed that he was in the room where his group had eaten the meat stew, but the room had been cleared out. There were no stray forks on the ground with which he could pry open the knots that bound his wrists, and there were no knives to cut the ropes or even to use as a weapon. He’d been captured like this before, and he knew when there was no escape. Adam had no recourse but to wait for his captors to come in and do whatever it was they wished to do with him.
Drayne soon came in and tried to hurt him, but she couldn’t cause much damage. She started with blades and scalpels but couldn’t get him to talk. Adam had been tortured with knives before, and they weren’t effective against him; to Adam a knife through the stomach was like a needle from a doctor—unpleasant but tolerable. Drayne became frustrated and removed her gloves, and then Adam knew he had her. She put her hands on his neck and soon started to quiver, then fell to the ground unconscious. Tree-class spanners are strong against scourges, Adam thought. We have more life than they can handle; it’s like putting the power of a bomb into a small battery.
Drayne had been debilitated from taking Adam’s power, but she was still alive. Two gloved guards dragged her out of the shed, and Adam looked through the window and saw her twitching in the snow outside. Adam used the time to try to escape the chair, but it was no use; the ropes were too well tied.
Adam sat in the shed with vomit on his shirt and saw Cannon strutting outside, flexing his muscles. This isn’t going to be pretty, thought Adam. The boy won’t get me to talk, but it’ll be some time before he realizes it.
They sent in Cannon after, and it wasn’t good. The boy beat Adam senseless, and the kid’s punches were like sledgehammers, relentless and without purpose. He broke Adam’s nose and ribs, cracked his sternum and gave him so many bruises that they started to join one another, and soon Adam’s body was a single discolored mess. Adam knew his injuries would heal, but in the meantime he had no choice but to take the blows, and soon he passed out again. When he woke up this time, he had a bigger headache and the vomit was still on his shirt.
How many times have I woken up like this? thought Adam.
Adam tried not to think of the times he’d been in similar situations, but the memories flooded his mind and he had to dwell on them. He had been chained and forgotten in a Spartan prison during a Helot revolt.
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