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Someone should be coming around before long, Neil thought. His legs were bound with zip-ties too tight to walk and his hands being free was not worth much, unless it was one-on-one... or two. With no clues to the passage of time he could have been there for a day or two, not much more as he wasn't get feeling the effects of dehydration. Actually I don't feel that bad except for being tied up. Figure twent-four hours or less More time passed, noises, door opening and some light. Two men grabbing his arms and pulling him upright. He went limp and made they carry him. Let them think I'm helpless. I got busted up enough to be plausible. Down a corridor into a brightly lit room. Lifted onto a table, like something in a hospital. Gonna interrogate me? Okey-dokey. He maintained his semi-conscious pose, an occasional moan or groan. The leg restraints were being removed. That was an improvement. Needle in the arm. Something to make me talk. With any luck it's a generic truth drug. And with any luck my conditioning hold. He could sense people moving around him but couldn't see anything. He was still in a twilight world but most senses aside from vision were sharp. What kind of drug does that? He was being moved again. Darkness. "Alec." That's me. Go ahead. "Alec, can you hear me?" "Yeah." Drowsy voice like they expect, I hope. "Alec, we need to know some things." "What things?" "You were wounded in the... incident at Black Rock. Do you remember?" Better than you can imagine. "Black Rock, yeah." "How do you feel?" They've got a lot of drugs in me, painkillers and others. I'm not feeling anything, what they expect. "Not bad." "Are you feeling any pain?" "I don't feel anything." That should help. "At Black Rock," the interrogator said, "you and a team went in to extract a prisoner. Remember?" "Yeah, Leo and Jack and I went in, had a chopper coming in to the rendezvous once were outside the perimeter." Good so far, everything is facts. Wait until it's non-facts - assuming they don't know different from what I'm gonna tell them. Shoulda complained about the ties but already said I can't feel anything... improvise.... struggle a bit... In the background - 'he's coming around' Better. Take your time. "You went in how?" Do they know or not? Does it matter? Only if I lie and they know better. "We had the layout and were planning it for a couple of weeks. We infiltrated at... Charlie-Seven." "OK, how did you get inside the compound?" Gonna guess.... hope that anyone in on it got clear. Or it's too late but if they caught them they wouldn't be asking... or would they? I've been here at least a couple of days... "We're Rangers. If anyone had seen us... you know how were equipped. It would be a while before the bodies were found or they failed to respond to a check. Anyway we didn't meet anyone. We took out the door guards and walked in and liberated our target." So good so far. "They you headed out the same way towards the perimeter?" Struggle and moan a bit. "Release his legs. He's not going anywhere." Someone cutting the ties, legs free. Through slitted eyes he could see that that there were at least three people in the room, possibly a fourth. BRM khakis on the ones he could see, the other - if there was another - was out of view. None of the ones he could see were armed but the exit was probably guarded. If he could get them to return him to the cell without restraints.... "Yeah, got something to drink?" The straw of a water bottle was put in his mouth. He actually had been thirsty. "What happened once you got to the fence?" "That's where you caught me. I'm guessing the others made it out." Partly true. "How did we catch you?" I covered their exit, took out two or three of them I expect. "I was hit. Or something. Figure someone hit me with a trank dart? Why? "Something?" "It all went black and that's the last thing I remember." Voices, background noise. "OK Alec, that's all for now. We'll talk some more later. Is there anything you need?" "Got a headache. Something to eat maybe." "Alright, we'll get you something."
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