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As psionic probing and brutal questioning escalate, Alpharius reveals knowledge of Grime’s identity, past postings, and motivations, including why he chose to be captured. 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The prisoner ’s back was towards me. I knew he sensed me, despite the tonne of rockcrete and reinforced blast plates that separated us. And then he spoke, his voice echoing in the bare chamber.  \n‘You are back,’ he said. His voice was calm, happy almost, which intrigued me. His words had an odd glottal pronunciation that I could only ascribe to his High Gothic being ten thousand years older than mine. It was hard to understand at once, but I learned the intonation, and I could always go inside his head.  \nI put my mouth to the vox-link. I have been an interrogator in the service of the Inquisition for longer than most men live their entire life. There was command in my voice when I asked, ‘What is your name?’  \nFor the forty-ninth time the traitor answered the same.‘Alpharius.’  \nII  \nStripped of his blue armour, Alpharius’s musculature was impressive.  \nHe had been bound to a device that my master had devised. It was called the Chair of Answers. I nicknamed it the ‘Wheel’. It turned even the most resolute heretic to babbler.  \nAs I stood before him, his size was daunting. The power, the ferocity, the uncaged evil. His face was abnormally large, his skin a waxy white, except where swirls of blue heretical tattoos twined themselves about his bull-thick neck. His body was completely hairless.  \nThe Wheel had already drawn blood where he had struggled against it.  \n+You cannot break free.+  \nHe was not surprised to have me inside his head.  \n+Why not?+  \n‘Speak properly, interrogator,’ he said and opened his eyes. They were red and burned with a slow hatred.  \n‘You are the one,’ he said and let out a sigh, almost as ifI had come to share a bottle of amasec with him.  \n‘What do you mean?’  \nHe laughed. ‘You have been sent to question me. Your name is…’ He turned his face up and the look was malevolent. He licked his lips, as if tasting for the name. ‘   Wodin Grime.’  \nIII  \nI was on Ephesus Prime when the Sanktum Sect rose up. I was there, at the Alms Gate of the Cathedral of Holy Terra, when the pressing crowds began to shout and point as it seemed men and women were picked out at random, and lifted by the power of their faith.  \nI remember their faces, bright with fear and hope as they rose straight into the air, beyond the clutching hands of fellow pilgrims, mothers, fathers and comrades. There was a fifteen-year old girl with fair hair and a crooked foot; a mother who had lost her firstborn son and was come to pray for another and a veteran of the Crinan Fourth who had sworn an oath, too holy to break, that if he survived the air drop on Gramma Signus, then he would make this pilgrimage.  \nThey rose, a hundred and eight of the holy, straight over the crowd, until they were as high as the cathedral walls. They hung there, weightless, and a rare joy went through the crowd, turning to horror as the figures combusted with green flame. The screams were terrible. The crowd responded like a wounded beast that reacts without thinking – pushing and shoving, and stampeding towards an exit to the square.  \nGobbets of melting human fat were raining down on us, and then the shooting started.  \nI checked my watch. The rebellion was five minutes late.  \n+It has begun,+ I signalled back to base.  \n+How do you know my name?+ I asked.  \nThe prisoner laughed.  \n+Are you really Alpharius?+  \nHe laughed again. ‘I thought the Inquisition knew all.’  \nMy psychic powers were not strong, and I had failed to surprise or shock his mind into revealing the answers I needed. ‘What did you hope to achieve in raising the Sanktum Sect?’  \nHe closed his eyes. ‘Do not question me, human.’ I turned the handle and razor spikes stretched the skin of his back before the blood began to flow.  \nHe grunted a little, then let out a long breath. ‘There are some who enjoy that,’he said.  \n‘You are a creature of evil,’ I told him.  \n‘I am a slave of the Dark Masters,’ Alpharius","cbCaionA7pyQZEi3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaionA7pyQZEi3","pdf",656373,17,"English","# I\n## II\n# III\n# V","[{\"question\":\"What device does the interrogator use to force answers, and what is its effect?\",\"answer\":\"He uses the “Chair of Answers,” which he nicknames the “Wheel.” It turns even resolute heretics into babblers and has already drawn blood from Alpharius.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Alpharius seem to know Wodin Grime’s name and biography?\",\"answer\":\"Alpharius directly addresses Grime, saying he knows who he is and all about him, implying his mind reading and/or prior knowledge defeats Grime’s attempt to keep his own past secret.\"},{\"question\":\"What event unfolds alongside the interrogation that increases the stakes?\",\"answer\":\"On Ephesus Prime, the Sanktum Sect rises at the Alms Gate, pilgrims are lifted into the air, then combust with green flame as screams and violence erupt, with shooting beginning and the rebellion starting shortly after expected timing.\"}]","Truth Is My Weapon - Short Story | PDF",1791342788,26]