“Cold wind from the mountain sent snowflakes whirling on the open threshold. The prisoners lay in their hovel naked and freezing, wrapped only in their chains. Enforced nakedness, an ancient trick, is one of the simplest ways to control prisoners. Psychologically speaking, the naked man is always at the mercy of the man wearing clothes.Smith, curled into a tight fetal ball, shivered violently in his sleep just before dawn. The colonel hung motionless, chained to a ring on the other side—he was a...wake, of course, he was always awake. He watched silently as the girl crept in from the outer dark, clutching a pointed object in her hand. He couldn’t raise his voice, couldn’t bring any words out of the fog. She squatted down and poked at Smith’s bare ass cheek with the object—a sharp, thorny stick.“Ow!” Smith jerked upright, chains clanking, joints frozen, blinking sleep out of his eyes. “It’s you,” he mumbled in English. “What the fuck do you want?”The girl shrugged, not understanding.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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