<strong><em>Grendel remembers...</em></strong><br/><br/>The Zhodani mind-whore bowed to Elli Ripli,<strong>"We are done here.  I am sorry for the necessary intrusion."<br/><br/></strong>Elli spat out the words,<strong>"I would have killed you or died first."</strong>But it hadn't mattered, the interrogator had simply read her mind aloud to the recording machine as if she had been taking dictation.  What did honor or duty matter if her secrets could simply be read from her restrained body.<br/><strong><br/>"I <em>know</em>.  I'm glad you could not do either."</strong>The woman was in the sliding doorway, about to leave.<br/><br/><strong>"I will have my revenge."</strong>Ellie said, feeling impotent hatred.<br/><br/>Incredibly, the other woman staggered as if she had been hit.<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>"You <em>have</em>."</strong> </span>She whispered through welling tears as the doors closed between them.  Elli stared at the mute doors, not understanding.  She wouldn't understand for some time...