The voice was Shan Kar's. He came from a side door across the shadowy hall, his eyes drugged with sleep. Apparently the voices had awakened him and he had come in time to hear.
He looked at Nelson with fear-wide eyes. "Kree did this to you, didn't he?"
"Yes, he did." Nelson told them all that had happened.
Sloan's hard brown face was tight. "Then you have to take Barin back to get your own body back?"
"Yes," Nelson answered. "And I've just come from Barin."
"So you know, do you?" Sloan said calmly.
"Yes, I know," Nelson told him. He added, with all his hatred throbbing in his thought, "You murdering swine."
Shan Kar looked bewildered. "What has happened to Barin?"
"Torture," Nelson answered. "Death."
He kept his wolf-gaze on Sloan and Van Voss, and Li Kin also regarded them with the eyes of a man sitting in judgment.