[ By spreads his hands. ]

I've no new updates, Vorkosigan. Torture. Exactly of the sort you'd expect. You've seen the holovids. You remember what happened when Captain Vortalon was captured by the collaborators and put to questioning.

[ He rubs his lip with his thumb. ]

Though as I recall, there was always a marked eroticism to those scenes. Shirts torn to reveal bare chests, sinuous writhing against ropes, parted lips, intense eye contact, copious moaning...I can now safely report to you that real torture is not remotely sexy.