Chapter Fifteen
Cooperation
“When you seek cooperation from a captive or hostage, nothing succeeds like torture.”
The source of this questionable concept, Capstan W. Oberly, was quite certain of its validity and often, just to illustrate his point, he used a variety of devices and equipment to prove it. Connie and Carol, shortly after their arrival at the habitat, began to experience his theory.
Connie, a junior Altuna crewmember who went diving with her friend, Carol, was now well aware of the old cliché about being at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was uncomfortably impaled, suspended in mid air, literally hanging by multiple portions of stretched and soon-to-be-pierced flesh, and crying. She was naked, of course, with only the hair on her head remaining, the rest of her bod
