Chapter 16 Teal'c
After we delivered Samantha into the safe hands of Dr Frasier we went for our post mission physical then went to the showers. As we exited the SG1 locker room to traverse to the infirmary an airman greeted us. Our presence was requested in the briefing room.
Arriving General Hammond and Dr Frasier were already seated, we joined them aware we were about to discover how our friend was.
"Having examined Major Carter she has no physical signs of torture apart from her back" she began. I bowed my head, she had been taken by Aphosis I knew how he marked his slaves like he marked his Jaffa painfully.
Dr Frasier passed me the photo being the nearest to her, I looked at it aware of what he had done a brief glance told me he had been angry she'd been marked worse than most of the slaves. I passed the photo on my primta wriggling in my gut.
"This is how Aphosis marks all his slaves, only the Gould are allowed unmarked skin" I informed them, O'Neill and General Hammond looked shocked, Daniel looked sick while Dr Frasier puzzled.
"How the CT scan indicated it goes right down the bone?"
"Aphosis takes his knife and cuts the pattern deep into her skin making sure it goes deep to the bone, then his most loyal of Jaffa takes a deep vat of liquid gold pouring it into the wound they wipe away the excess before placing the victim in the sarcophagus so the gold solidifies." I finished my account taking note of their faces.
"Is there anyway to remove it?" Dr Frasier asked me, I shook my head
"Without killing her it is impossible"
"What else did you find Doctor" Hammond asked,
"There were no other physical injuries however mentally she is extremely withdrawn and didn't talk to me throughout the whole examination, she barely moved either its like she wasn't there just a shell" She commented.
"Aphosis will have tortured her brutally, he has ways of breaking someone, she will not speak unless ordered to, eat or drink unless ordered to, to do so without permission results in dire punishment" I told them,
"What kind of punishments?" O'Neill asked his voice tightly controlled,
"They are are many Aphosis chooses to inflict, he enjoys whipping letting his victim hang there slowly bleeding to death, stuffing his subject into small spaces and leaving them to die, using the hand device, he makes them choose which punishment they want if they speak out of turn they get both if they don't speak they get both. But by far the worst is the Maichinas they have never failed in breaking anyone" I told them a stab of ice fear driving into me at the thought.
"The maichinas?" Daniel asked his curiosity getting the better of him.
"They are an evil creature, much like the locust of your world desiring only human flesh. Aphosis places his victim in the sarcophagus with thousands of these creatures, the victim dies to come back awake to being eaten alive, there is no escape any creature that dies is also regenerated. The only way to escape is to give yourself to Aphosis totally. Any deviation and the person returns" I described they all looked horrified. Dr Frasier turned to Hammond
"Sir this is way out of my league we need to get a professional psychiatrist in"
"Understood there's a Dr McKenzie who has clearance" he replied. O'Neills' face went black
"No way Sir, he is the quack that let me go on the first mission he has no idea please anyone else" Hammond considered it, Janet spoke up
"Sir if I may, I have a friend I trained with, she specialised in trauma and POW counselling I think she could help" Janet put forward.
"I'll have her here within the day" Hammond promised, "OK dismissed" he ordered,