Jason said, conversationally, “Your left arms are numb, Alecko, from the elbows down.”His security forces started forward. “Halt,” she said, and they stopped. Some of them glanced at each other, nervously. “Retreat. Regroup,” she said, and they did.Alecko’s father was sweating. “Don’t, Captain. Please.”She glanced at him. “Do you remember when I pleaded with you, Dhimitri?“I described to a doctor what you’d done to Bear Vouris,” she continued, “and how it felt to me, while I was linked in the Net. He said you’d inflicted a condition known as ’odynacusis’—a big word which means ‘painful hearing.’ This is what it feels like.”Alecko screamed…