The ordeal in this story happens when Marcus is captured by the DHS again. Marcus was being interrogated by the severe haircut lady, and she had asked him to tell her his password and login for his Xnet account. When Marcus refused to do this, the severe haircut lady threatened him with a type of torture called the waterboard. She said that it simulates the feeling of dying within your body. Marcus just laughed at them because he thought that he had already been through the worst that they could throw at him. Unfortunatly he was wrong, it was exactly what the severe haircut lady had said it would be like. They put a bag over his head and laid him down with his head tilted backwards, and then poured huge buckets of water over his head. The water would run through his nose and down his throat. He would try to cough and gag to get the water out, but he could not suppress his gag reflex because of all the water. ""Give him a drink," she said"(Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 345).
Marcus tried to tell his body that he was going to be okay, but he could not fight the feeling that he was dying. "This time, it was a bucket of water, all at once, a flood that didn't stop, it must have been gigantic. I couldn't help it. I gasped and aspirated the water in my lungs, coughed and took more water in. I knew they wouldn't kill me, but I couldn't convince my body of that. In every fiber of my being, I knew I was going to die. I couldn't even cry - the water was still pouring over me."(Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 345).
Luckily for Marcus as this was happening the California State Troopers bursted into the room as this was happening and arrested severe haircut lady and all the other agents in the prison.
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