Dystopias -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Torture -- Fiction
He pushed open the inner door and entered the Interrogation Chamber.
To his surprise, he saw Matthews, one of his assistants, wearing the
uniform of an Interrogator and standing near the robot, arms folded.
"What are you doing in here dressed that way?" Kroll snapped.
"I am the new Interrogator," Matthews told him.
"Since when?"
"The appointment was made very early this morning," the Inquisitor
said. "We have all the evidence we need to brand you as a traitor to
the State."
The new Interrogator turned a switch, and Kroll heard his own voice
come from a speaker. "_The State is wrong! Stupid! Wrong! Criminally,
disgustingly wrong! How could I have been so foolish?_"
"There is no need to deny these words," said the Interrogator. "It is
only necessary that you tell us with whom you have been working."
"But there's no one!" Kroll shouted. "You don't understand! I'm loyal!
I can explain!"
But the new Interrogator merely looked cold as the long, chilling metal
arms of the Inquisitor reached out and gathered Kroll to its steel
bosom.
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