In another time and place his attitudes and ideas would have found a receptive audience. But as it was, he was labeled ‘the Squeamish’ and summarily expelled from the Torturers Guild in an embarrassing but physically non-hazardous ceremony which the other apprentices sardonically referred to as dis-membering. Initially disheartened – but also relieved – he went on to found a traveling school which advocated for more humane interrogation techniques always taking great pains on the lecture circuit to stop just short of boring his students to death.
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 38
