[That would be a joke, from most people, but from Fortescue it's experience talking. She's keenly aware she was on the verge of death when the Center had kidnapped her, the last time. An hour, at the most, her life drained away by a magic deprivation field, a few fists, and some knives. Still, she keeps her tone light enough. It's sort of a joke.]
A bit too glorified by the cinema, if you ask me, where being macho is concerned.
[Why would you want to die slowly, covered in your own blood? Honestly. Action films have it all wrong. There's no pride in it; all of that drains away until you simply wish for death, or an escape. Those in intelligence know that the best. Torture is unreliable for information simply because the victim will say anything to be free, one way or another.]
Of course, you might come back to a cooler full of... blue blood, or something, instead.
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[That would be a joke, from most people, but from Fortescue it's experience talking. She's keenly aware she was on the verge of death when the Center had kidnapped her, the last time. An hour, at the most, her life drained away by a magic deprivation field, a few fists, and some knives. Still, she keeps her tone light enough. It's sort of a joke.]
A bit too glorified by the cinema, if you ask me, where being macho is concerned.
[Why would you want to die slowly, covered in your own blood? Honestly. Action films have it all wrong. There's no pride in it; all of that drains away until you simply wish for death, or an escape. Those in intelligence know that the best. Torture is unreliable for information simply because the victim will say anything to be free, one way or another.]
Of course, you might come back to a cooler full of... blue blood, or something, instead.
[Life in the Center is... an adventure.]