Narration:
O-Yama awakens after some passage of time... he has no way of knowing how much. The last things he remembered were the rush of excitement, the hope he might be on the verge of escape... and the excruciating pain of fire.
He finds himself in much the same situation as he was in last time - bound at to a metal slab - save that in addition to the other bonds, atop the bonds he is wrapped in a virtual web of steel cables. Conspicously, they do not cover the area of his chest over which hovers the infernal device housing the hydraulic stake and the flame jets. The slab is tilted at an incline, his feet down, head up and back, allowing him to see some of his surroundings, though he is still unable to turn his head more than a few degrees.
O-Yama also finds it more difficult to move his hands at all, and looking down, he sees why. They are pinned to the metal table, thick metal, rather like a giant staple, punching through his hands and bolted onto the table, the flesh healing around the wounds.
Glancing around, he sees things much the same. He sees the middle-aged, stocky, bald British man, dressed in the same style as last time. He also sees the younger black man, and a 30ish woman with short, auburn hair and black-rimmed glasses, wearing a lab coat over a white blouse and short, grey skirt.
O-Yama does not see the other captive vampire, Anatoly, who - when last he saw him - was staked with his skull opened, exposing the brain. He does see Mel, however, who is once again gagged. He also sees the torpid, staked, badly burnt and still-mutilated elder with the exceptionally potent blood. He feels a revulsion when he views this vampire, presumably the monstrous Bethem, yet at the same time he feels a sense of affection, and is pained at seeing this other vampire's form so horribly damaged.
The black man, once again writing on a clipboard, points his pen over at O-Yama, and the British man turns.
"Ah, awake again I see." He walks over, looking at O-Yama while avoiding looking at or near his face.
"I am rather impressed," the British man says. "You got further than any of our test subjects have managed thus far, and taught us a few things in the process, things we can use to better restrain, study and eventually destroy your kind. So, my thanks for that. It was also quite entertaining to watch. A pity video footage of your kind is so unreliable. I'd enjoy watching that one over and over, and at least one of my associates would no doubt find it quite useful for fueling masturbation fantasies.
"I also have to admit a grudging respect for your tenacity, but that only goes so far, and at a certain point, stubbornness crosses over into the territory of stupidity. So, are you ready to answer some questions and provide us with useful information, or are you going to be stupid and have to be shown just how serious we are about our work, and just how seriously we are willing to fuck you up to get what we want?"
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