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Regaining consciousness was a very unpleasant experience. My whole body ached and if I tried to move, it hurt even more. It was worse than how I’d felt when I’d woken up on that beach. I knew it was because of how long he’d kept his finger on the trigger. All the stunners that I’d ever seen didn’t work like that. This one must have had a lower power setting that allowed him to keep the electrical surge going indefinitely. It was a form of t*****e. It wasn’t right.
I tried to lie as still as possible to avoid causing more pain. What was going to happen to me now? He’d warned us about being punished and now we’d paid the price. I winced.
But it wasn’t like I did it on purpose. Reliving the horror of what Turak almost did to me was too much. A sort of half shudder ran through me just th
