In many ways he was a great captain.
Apart from the fact that is attributed to him in spite of all the colors had not been decorated, not even a tiny noticina - removed this fact - when I finally admitted to the Board of Control, I was immediately given him if he really wanted to have a framework illustrate the situation and if you really always wanted to have one. When we presented
I shook his hand and merely nodded once learned my name and my office.
Through a series of security doors to a lift which went down. We crossed other up to a door in a different color, numbered, after which a long corridor laboratories led to retention as the file called them that I had to study days before appointment obtained or not, to get close to as much as between them and me and the captain was bureaucracy.
"I do not believe ... - I immediately said - ... I get some benefit from being here. My pay is indifferent to the nature of the engagement. "And I, without any ironic intention, as I pointed out to a generous prebend enjoyed the party.
"We all have some prebend of the party." He said.
was true.
"One-third of which, remember, is deducted as a voluntary contribution ... Nevertheless, we can say with full consciousness to receive better treatment. "
was true too. We arrived
, confirms the symbol on my file, drive retention that I had come to visit first: the captain touched a panel and a screen, the first black, lit showing the retention of a prisoner in his unit, that serving the sentence .
Eighty-eight years for crimes against the state.
"He is the famous Kostia?" I asked without really need it, but I could not keep the drive as psychologists call it the party.
"The Great Kostia to be precise. - Said the captain - The Great Kostia the bandit, as they call both acolytes and opponents ... even our enemies, but there's his record? "
"No. Indeed, certain details are negligible. "
" Either you become. But who cares? Have you ever been to Africa? No? Should go. I've been there. "
I nodded, he was known his conduct of the campaign but Africa:
" I have not taught me the practice. "I just
" Do not need to justify ... then? "this time it was my turn to the panel, the image of the Great Kostia became a little square on the left. Appeared graphs and data.
wrote down everything. Finished.
"Where Del Nero?" I asked with a nod and the captain invited me to follow him
"Returning to his premise ..." I said, two or three steps behind him
"It was not a premise. She is here to assess and I am not allowed to conclusions before you arrive. I just pointed out that this or another position for me is just work. He has no idea who invented this system? "
" I. I designed and retention. "And in the meantime here is Del Nero, forty years for crimes against the state. The captain followed the same procedure just before:
"A real bulldog is not it?" In fact, the physique of Del Nero was really massive and impressive and the analysis confirmed that yes I was fully conscious.
"I gather that you feel idle?" I made him
"There is not much to watch Here, you will agree. "
" Should we let them roam freely because she can riacchiapparli? "the captain looked at me with a shrug of a man accustomed to violent action, narrow in its uniform of green cloth. I began to understand why they had not ever decorated.
"Look at me. - He added - not even their tormentor ... "
" It will have had the opportunity to ... speak in his time. "
" And where is the link? I wonder: what am I doing here after all? This story of retention ... "
" Wait. "Silenced him, tools spasms in the subject signaled that they would not have happened. I modified reducing the flow of drugs as soon as the phenomenon, I could not do more without the risk of lost senses, causing a suspension of retention, in the first place, was strictly prohibited and second could cause the coma.
Del Nero would become one of my many relationships, trashed a thousand times, for the attention of the Board of Control. The spasms started again.
turned off the monitor.
Since the project had categorically ruled out that the retention could be applied to sentences exceeding ten years and the last two decades but had not been imposed a penalty of less than thirty. The fact that some individuals hold up well and the release of two criminals sentenced to three years were the only data available to the committee, but more than enough to confirm their hypothesis and invalidate mine.
And even in a week after the death of two other prisoners here is a miracle that I acknowledge in the committee and give way to my inquiry that any outcome reached, both will satisfy the public that the claim has to be me that I can not denial of her conduct.
Not for long anyway.
Captain: "Imagine then that we had no more enemies ..."
"We'll always have enemies."
"I suppose for a moment."
"You can not assume anything not already have their foundations in reality." and truth I quoted from some considerations of the President.
"I bow to his teaching." Preparing to continue the visit, although with less interest on my part. I noticed the captain was suffering from a slight limp in his left leg.
"And that Kopopkin .... know him? "
" Lieutenant Colonel Kopopkin was my assistant. "
" Really? What happened? "
" was shot. The last death sentence before the law on retention. "
" Lieutenant Colonel already ... I remember now. The nerves gave way, eh? "
" It was completely uncalled for. The inmate had to serve only a few months of retention. He could not interpreted his gesture as some act of piety. That's what it was: murder and attentive to the established order. "
" continue. "
We had come to a fork in the hallway, turn left. Riscontrai problems in other detainees, even with reduced penalties to limit myself that I had intended.
"Military for the most part." Notaries
"With discrete careers too. Minor acts of insubordination. "
" Slight? "
" During the civil war. "
" Ah. "Corridor formed as a loop culminating in access to other arms, return to the fork from the right. Smaller laboratories followed each other tight ... life imprisonment, life imprisonment, even three life sentences!
"syndicalism." Explained the captain before I accedessi to some panel to get the same information. I called, however, a general diagnostic, but the response was obvious to the naked eye: the detainees were so aware, but due to an increasing addiction to drugs, the maximum dose allowed was not sufficient and contractions, cramping, atrophy of the principles had become uncontrollable . One of them was able to move from his position collapsing.
unacceptable.
"Let's go." Said the captain, and inserted the necessary code. The door opened and we raised the prisoner, helpless, his forehead hot and pale complexion. His eyes left no doubt, had lost the fixed retention and had become opaque, as with cataract.
was crazy and all others like him.
The captain had reached the same conclusion.
"Let's go."
The captain laughed: "There is but one wonders if the ever had the good sense ..."
Indeed: "The search party's claim that it is a congenital form of perversion, Tare a mindset in which certain individuals to subversive actions. "
" It's so, I agree. "
" We on the other hand we should consider more of a disability of the poor to be pitied than as some real criminals. "
" Certainly can not be included in society. "
" Because maybe the Great Kostia, as she calls it, could it? "
The face of the captain frowned:
" Never take a lot more freedom interpreting my statements. I never said anything like that. "
" But suppose it could. "
His features relaxed:
" either. His is a sophism. Nice and good. I am a true Democrat. "
" And who is not? "
" His incompetent as you call them, are not. "So we got to the point to me?
Of course we were back on our feet.
said no more.
The vibrations of the lift were the only sound to the upper floor and the surface.
I reached my office: a window I tried to revise the sky, but the skyscrapers let me. The center of retention was a low building with one floor occupied by a guard post and offices. Underground all the rest, from level to level meaning we plant our scarecrow in the heart of the earth.
turned on my terminal and began to spread the relationship, building echoes the voice of the captain gave orders to the men of the guard in a tone almost sighing, but no less severe.
After a while ' knocked on the door, followed by a forward to my new appearance of the captain who wished me good job because his shift was over and his colleague was ready to replace it.
returning home. Each
thirty-six hours return.
I greeted him with the same warmth that I had not given below and because of this damn stretch and roll around in the bowels of others.
In short I would put the majority of the data and sent my report to the committee, but the arrest warrants were to be communicated first to avoid giving rise to suspicions of negligence in my perception of priorities.
I wrote the name of the master ... Proposed Penalty: eleven years of retention. Ascribed crime: anti-democratic propaganda.
I signed.
would have gone home before him.