"Easy enough, but far more pleasurable to rub it in." Casual cruelty had always been the way of things, yeerks broke hosts. It was unlikely that behind those eyes even a fragment of the host personality remained intact, or if it did...

Well, he wouldn't have to deal with the host, likely.

"And your rank and pool affiliation?" Always a good way to track down alliances, or at least half understand them. "How long ago"?