We start off with the vision of the lieutenant raping little six-year-old Wendy right in front of a contingent of men sitting close by drinking alcoholic beverages. The action is described in two or three sentences, interspersed between situational explanations, including the emotional state in which Wendy seems to be.
The lieutenant realizes that even at such a tender age, she has already been penetrated. After he finishes his dirty work, right in front of the small crowd, and Wendy is taken away, he stops them and states that she will now be coming with him. He has, as we shall realize eventually, fallen in love, after his own psychotic and deeply depraved manner. A demonic attachment, which he will initiate and turn over to greater demons.
The restricted area around the engineering center is made up of a small population in a secluded area, difficult to get to, kept secret, and protected, and who are psychologically reared for silence and to want to stay in one place. They are also forbidden to ever travel outside of this area. The measures are in place so that no word of the organization’s engineering center ever gets out.
We are told that a great massacre occurred generations ago, perpetrated by the commander himself, giving us a strange clue about the nature of this man, who seems to live on well past the normal human life span. The massacres carried out ensured that this area would be clean and ready for a completely pliable and regulated population. Hints of an occult reality, which the author always protects, as should be, leaving us always guessing, and giving life to the work.
The engineer reports and showcases his work to the lieutenant. They both delight together in the destructive power of the device. They relish in the untold misery they will inflict upon the victims of their weapons of mass murder.
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