Setting
A large and imposing structure, the Wing City Police Department is a building designed to resist what the city has to offer. Fitted with security systems designed to combat mages, psionics, teleporters and phasers alike, nobody could ever accuse the WCPD of being unprepared. Alongside the regular offices, training areas and public areas you would expect in a police station, Wing City's department is fitted with a large bunker and armoury.
Armed guards have a notable presence around the building, many of whom are more than human themselves, and all of whom are equipped with specialist weaponry and protection designed for the environment they work in.
The building itself is heavily reinforced. The brand new reinforced metal doors leading into the building can be locked down with heavy shielding and blast resistance. Turrets, deployable cover and multiple checkpoints with similar defenses internally are spread throughout the building.
"Agent Jones, please bring the cart." He said calmly, and one of the Agents promptly ducked out of the door with a crystalline chime.
"You're trying my patience, Miss Rose."
As she spoke, her brow furrowed and she looked away, seemingly perturbed by something. “I don't know what it is you think I can help you with,” she added in a more amiable tone of voice.
"Very well then, we'll do this the hard way." He said before he flipped the briefcase open, and withdrew a syringe filled with a neon green-yellow liquid that seemed to glow.
"I have ways of persuading my prisoners to talk." He said, slowly creeping towards her, as the two Agents closed in.
"This needle has one of two drugs, Pattern, a powerful hallucinogenic opiate, which powerfully addictive side effects, you will die without consuming more of the drug... or it has a serum that greatly increases the pain receptors in your body, both drugs are similar, I chose the vial at random, so are you going to talk now?"
As she spoke, she was twisting her hands against the bindings, seemingly distressed at the confinement they posed and her head lowered so her chin was against her chest. “You musn't ask, you musn't look."
"You will tell me everything you know, and I will pursue my leads accordingly." Duram explained, pacing back around and to Whisper's right.
"Who are those individuals?"
As Duram passed by Whisper's side, her head jerked up and share stared him in the eye. Gone was her earlier assertiveness, and in its place was simply the countenance of a frightened woman. Though it didn't seem to be Duram whom she was frightened of. No, Whisper's demons lay elsewhere.
Turning her head away, she let her silver white locks of hair fall down to shield her eyes again. “Musn't speak to it, musn't humor it.”
"Answer my gods-damned question!" Duram barked, before he swung his arm around to backhand the girl across the face. "Answer me or you'll get the pattern!" He barked, before he swung his arm around to jab the needle into the woman's neck.
"Maybe when the cravings overpower you, you'll answer my question for a pitiful vial of Pattern." Duram said, though the needle was in, he hadn't injected the serum.
"What is the Orsa, what are those men and what is the Corruption!?"
She began to twist her hands against her bindings again, but this time her movements had purpose. Her eyes shifted to the side, as best they could, given the situation. Her gaze was upon her own arm, and the blackened mark that she bore. A year had come and gone since the days of the Orsa of Terminus, and the inquiry brought up memories of a time gone but not forgotten. "They are not one and the same."
Calmly and almost nonchalantly, he touched it against the back of the metal chair Whisper was sitting in, likely resulting in quite a start.
"What are they? You say they are the beginning of the end, what do you know about them? How can we stop them?"
"Ghosts of the past you say? There's a lot of information contained in the Aiyanna files, much of it is dated, they were a powerful group, how could they be destroyed?" He asked, then he tapped the photo of the cultists.
"And what about them?"
“If you persist in pursuing this, it will be your undoing. You'll know only darkness. A darkness of the likes that only your own mind can conjure up. I have seen it.” Whisper closed her eyes, her expression pained.
"Where are their hideouts?"
"As soon as you tell us what we want to know, we will release you. But matters of national security matter more than some petty fears of the occult." He said, glaring at Whisper. "What do you have to fear? You're on a ship orbiting the planet, thousands of miles from the surface."
He narrowed his eyes.
"The only thing you have to fear, is what will happen when you don't tell me anything."
"Can we combat it with our technology?"
"What god would be behind this? Hades?"
"Who is behind this cult? This 'Corruption' you speak of?"
She wasn't entirely aware for how long the ordeal had spanned, but as the prod was removed, her head fell forward, and she sagged in the chair. Only the agent's firm grip on her shoulder kept her in place at all. Her breath was thready and labored as she tried to regain her senses.
“I said, we're done speaking to you.” Her words were shaky though, and a bead of sweat ran down her brow. Anxiety perhaps?
"You will tell me everything I wish to know, or you will suffer!" He barked, then two Agents held the girl down before a third covered her face with a cloth, leaving only her mouth exposed, then water was poured on her face, in the nose and the mouth, slowly and steadily for several seconds.
"You can make this all stop, right here, right now."
"You're going to talk!" He barked, the Agents would force her to sit back up, allowing her to gasp for air before waterboarding her again for several seconds, though there was likely no physical pain, but the psychological torture, the drowning feeling, would replace that physical pain.