Corroded By Hate

"What should we do commander?" The young officer asked.

"Kill the girls and take him back for another session with the Dr," the commander said, pointing her hairy fingers toward Lizzy, Izzy, Emily, Velmuuth, and Zoey.

With mounting rage, Ryan's hostile glare was as sharp as daggers and was directed at the two human scum. He recognized them, he recognized them all too well as he relived the scene buried deep inside him. A scene that the empire didn't want him to remember.

The scene began to claw its way into his conscious thought. Ryan tried to tamp it down and focus on the mounting threat that the commander posed, but the memories captured his attention.

He was in a clearing, deep in a mountain range.

"Hit him harder, officer!" The commander shouted, "Our goal is pain!"

It was the same commander that stood frozen before him now. It was as if time had stood still and allowed him this brief look into his past.

The sadistic woman was chuckling softly, brandishing her whip.