dream → 002

[hunt_jackals]

Warning:  Violence, torture.  Not for the faint of heart.
Dream Effect:  In the last half of the dream, pain.  Lots of pain, mixed with some fear, exhaustion and confusion.

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( Voice )

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[A child? Wasn't there some way to filter these things so that children wouldn't see them? What was in Liquid's dream would have made a grown man go pale; someone as young as this boy had no business seeing it.]

Tch. It was war. These things happen.

( Voice )

[hunt_jackals]

No one ever said that the world was just or kind.

[His tone was sharp, but immediately after he reined in his temper. He shouldn't act so upset; it was only a sign of weakness.]

[His hands tightened on the Dreamberry to stop their shaking. Weak. He refused to be weak in front of anyone.]

It's not important, anyway. It is in the past and there's no changing it. It doesn't matter.

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[He'd spent four years in the tender care of Iraqi interrogators-- and one of them in particular had taken a special interest in him. The others had lost interest after it had became clear that he wasn't going to tell them anything, but he had kept at it. He went through every single technique in a torturer's handbook on Liquid and probably came up with a few more besides.]

[By the time he answered Snake, Liquid had composed himself and was standing in his kitchen; there was an open bottle of whiskey and a glass on the counter in front of him, neither of which were in the Dreamberry's view. His face was cold and haughty.]

[The perfect soldier would never have been caught. The perfect soldier would be able to take torture and not be plagued by nightmares for fifteen years. Showing that he was even slightly bothered by the dreams was weakness that he couldn't afford to have.]

It wouldn't have mattered if you did. We already had that information.

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[Much of Shadow Moses was smoke and mirrors. The fights, the DARPA chief, the torture... to an extent.]

He...

[Liquid had to gather his thoughts. Couldn't let himself be weak, not in front of Snake.]

He should have. We needed to know about the cardkey. There was a trick to it that we hadn't found out.

[The fact that he'd had to use torture to get it-- well, there was a reason that Raven called him at that very opportune time, giving him an excuse not to be there when the act was carried out. He'd hated the very thought of torturing anyone, even Snake; he was too well-acquainted with the methods to ever wish them upon anyone else.]

[He'd given the order anyway. They'd needed to know about that cardkey, they'd needed REX, and he had to use any means necessary to get that information. And as commander, the responsibility for those actions rested on him, even if he hadn't been the one pulling the switches.]