Interrogation Room No. 2, 4:35 a.m.
The room has no windows; the only door is a fifteen-centimeter-thick explosion-proof metal door.
Milosh is shackled to a steel chair fixed to the ground, with the handcuff chain passing through a ring below the chair.
Standard restraint procedure, but it gives him some upper body movement.
This is intentional, to observe his reaction under limited freedom.
He faces a one-way mirror alone.
He knows there are people behind the mirror, possibly more than one.
This is the first stage of interrogation: solitary waiting.
Silence amplifies the sound of time passing, darkness nurtures fearful imagination.
During training in the Serbian "Red Beret" Special Forces, the first lesson of counter-interrogation training was: the initial silence is the most vulnerable moment.
He closes his eyes and begins to silently recite passages from De Sanctis' "Psychology of War" in his mind.
