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If you will not give us the information voluntarily, we will get it out of you in other ways. This device here will serve nicely to achieve our ends. It can be fastened to your thumbs in more than one way, none of which you will enjoy. Once the device has been positioned with your thumbs between the bars, the handle will be turned until the pressure felt by the teeth grinds your bones to splinters. Should we place the pointed tips on your knuckles, you will beg to tell us everything. Your thumb-bones will be slowly separated at the joints, the tendons ripping and popping. Lastly, should you not divulge that which we want to hear, the studs will be placed just so on the tips of your thumbs, centering on the thumnail. Not only will the pain of the points biting into your nerves be agonizing, but it will be aided by the cracking of the thumnails themselves as their sharp, broken edges bite into the soft flesh beneath. Yes, you will tell us what we desire to know.

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