Admiral Vorn stared at a frozen image of Sal. He’d expected the shuttle to contain several people at least, but they’d found only one. That narrowed down the interrogation techniques considerably. They couldn’t risk her dying, and many of the most effective techniques involved seeing a friend in pain.
Capturing the shuttle had been a reflex action. The right action, but still a reflex. Now he had to decide what to do. With the Wanderer having escaped yet again the question was whether to interrogate the prisoner immediately.
Vorn wanted to be directly involved in the questioning, though from the safety of his own ship. That ruled out an interrogation in jump space when inter-ship communication was impossible. Every moment they delayed gave the Wanderer a greater lead. Vorn knew
