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The American Civil War on Earth that Was had been a war often fought between brothers. This, too, was a Civil War of sorts, as well as a Revolution. But who ever thought I'd meet my brother under these...

His thoughts were interrupted by a shock of electricity that ripped through his body and left him reeling. As he struggled to catch his breath, that voice came from behind the glass, "Now, are you going to tell us what we want to know?"

"Piss off." He was rewarded with another bone jarring shock for his insubordination.

"The more you resist, the worse this is going to get for you, you know."

Too exhausted to reply, he just nodded.

The voice came over the intercom, "We're not going to get anything else out of him today. Take him back to his cell."

The two guards removed the nodes, and picked him up from his chair. They were less than gentle, eliciting a groan from their ward. They dragged him back to his cell and tossed him in, locking the door behind them.

His cell. More like a coffin set on its end. It was too small for him to lie down, or even sit and stretch his legs. About the only position he could manage comfortably was to curl on the floor in a fetal position. An access door opened and a small bottle of water and a few scraps of protein were pushed through it, and hit the floor. He reached out and shoved the protein in his mouth, ravenous for some sustenance after today's 'session'. However, he ate it too fast, and his stomach rebelled. He crawled over to the hole in the floor that served as his toilet, and it all came back up.

He began to sob miserably. They were close to breaking him, and he knew that the only thing to follow would be his death. Be it at the hands of his captors, or those he would betray