Visceral by Thielen Adam

Author:Thielen, Adam [Thielen, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-07-09T04:00:00+00:00

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Dreben discovered at a young age he enjoyed the infliction of pain on others. It bestowed a sense of calm gratification that he could not obtain from any other activity. His safest opportunities for outlet came in sexual form, luring both men and women to bed. Plied with drugs and patiently groomed, he convinced them to try something ‘edgy and interesting’. He was a salesman of masochism, but he rarely had repeat customers.

From corporate secondary school, where he trained in traditional vocations of accounting and management, he went on to intern with two different corporations before being poached by Grapeseed. They found subtle clues in his psych evals that they felt warranted a special interview. There he admitted, under influence of sedatives, his long kept secret. The recruiters made him an offer he could not refuse. It was not as easy as they had made it sound. Dreben had many setbacks, and the training required was more arduous than he ever could imagine. But after sixteen years, he had earned a reputation as a breaker of wills. An obnoxious guard that worked in the lower floor kept calling him “glass man” until it stuck. “Because they all break,” he had to explain over and over. It wasn’t clever, but it rolled off the tongue.

It was early in the morning when Dreben received the alert on his com. Someone had broken into Grapeseed and stolen sensitive information, but had been caught. An open and shut case, except the board wanted all information extracted from this individual and they wanted it yesterday. Much to his surprise, he found a female restrained on the table before him. Not that he had quibbles or preferences, but it had been years since he had interrogated one of the opposite gender.

He found her presence intimidating, but that was common enough that he had learned to perfectly control his demeanor. The woman on the table was young, and she was beautiful. Further, she was bold for daring to physically infiltrate arguably the most powerful corporation on a planet ruled by corporations. He shuddered with excitement. Dreben turned to his tool racks. Then tension crept in as he remembered the board’s expectations of a quick interrogation.

Dreben grabbed the hammer. May as well skip a step or two. Her screams were exquisite. It only took three strikes before she gave up who she had messaged. He sighed in relief. Now that the important part was done he could relax and take his time, letting the machines do most of the work. They were far more precise and disciplined than he was. He wrote their algorithms and routines while he was in a calm state, to ensure consistent results when the time came to extract information from the unwilling.

A myth had been propagated in the old world that torture did not work. This claim was revised to “didn’t usually” work, to “didn’t often”, and later “unreliable”. Anyone ever caught in a headlock or threatened with the belt from their father knew the power of fear and pain.

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