Marc did not remember his drink would be laced. The compound made him susceptible to suggestions while permitting interrogators to give Marc commands. This happened several times during the four-hour ordeal, of which he remembered little more than an hour.
Some questions were mundane and often repetitive, but each was designed to measure his worth.
“Would you kill if ordered to do so?” a man they referred to as Aelred asked.
Aelred was an Englishman in his twenties with auburn hair. Those piercing blue eyes were his most striking trait. Whereas that crooked nose and cleft in his chin gave him a rugged appearance.
Had Marc been aware, he might have had something to say about his motherland. What the English did to the Maiden of Orléans was still fresh in the minds of the French.
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