No

"Please, don't," you say.

"Begging isn't going to get you anywhere. Now, hold still,{if Escape Attempts >=1}unless you want to try your luck bolting again,{endif}" he says.

You have nowhere to move but backward, but that soon leaves you pinned against the wall. There's a reason they moved the bed to the corner of the room. The other two soldiers approach you from either side. You look left. You look right, but it's just like outside. There's no running. Each of the other soldiers pins one of your arms to the wall. You struggle, but even without their powered armor, they could probably overpower you. The Nothian speaker snaps the collar around your neck.

"There," he says. "Was that so hard?" He presses a button on his wrist. There's a tingly buzz in your neck. "That's setting zero," he says. "No pain. That's just there to get your attention. If you feel it, it means your master needs to say something to you or is summoning you." He presses another button. Pain jolts through your body as though someone had kicked you in the back of the neck with all their might. "That was setting one. I'm going to hold back on showing you the others, but they go up to twenty."

"You're--" He presses it again, on setting one, "Ow!"

"I'm ow, am I?"

You glare at him.

"Say you're sorry." He hovers his finger over the button.

"I'm sorry," you say.

"To whom?"

"I'm sorry, sir."

"Good."