This chapter is a departure from what you are used to reading from me. I have to warn you that it contains graphic violence. I thought long and hard about what went into this chapter and actually scaled it back from what I had originally written. This is the first time I have written a chapter that is this dark. I look forward to reading comments as to how it was received.
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The guards led me out into the hallway, down several corridors, then through a locked doorway that led down many flights of stone stairs. I was taken to a room with about a dozen cells that were constructed of iron bars on the sides and front, and a stonewall at the back. Around the center of the room were many devices made of wood, rope, and iron. None of these looked like something that would be pleasant to have an encounter with. There were no occupants in any of the cells and I was put in one of the center cells. There also were no cots or any sort of comfort items here; my heart skipped a beat as the cell door was slammed.
Two men entered dressed in civilian attire followed by two of the castle guards. The guards opened the cell and dragged me out by the arms and hair. I did my best to resist but with my arms bound behind my back, my kicks were off balance and useless. I was dragged over to a set of poles set in the stone floor about six feet or so apart. A noose made of rough hemp like fiber was slipped over my head and the slack was taken out of the rope causing my neck to stretch slightly as the rough fibers dug into my skin. The guards spread my legs apart then each ankle was secure with shackles. Once my legs were secure the noose was pulled again to stretch my neck into an even more uncomfortable position. With my legs and neck immobilized my wrists were untied and shackled to two ropes mounted to a pulley at the top of each of the posts. Once secured the ropes were pulled tight positioning me in the shape of an "X", one of the inquisitors came toward me with a knife. I feared that he was going to begin flaying my skin, but instead he sliced my dress down the front, and then cut through the sleeves leaving me naked.
The two guards took a long leering look at my exposed body as they were ushered out of the room by one of the inquisitors. The other inquisitor circled around me, his rough hand running over my soft tender flesh. As he circled behind me his hand groped my firm little butt. Being that he towered over me by about a foot or so, his hands were quiet large and as he groped me, both cheeks of my pert butt fit almost perfectly in one of his hands. His hand moved up my back under my long black hair before his fingers gripped by dark mane tightly where my neck met my shoulders. As he held my hair and head tightly in his grasp, every move he made caused the rough fiber of the noose to rasp against the soft skin on my stretched neck. I was told that this could go hard on me or this could be easy as long as I told the truth. He then asked me where I came from and what my business was here.
I explained everything to him just as I had to Lord Hetch as to how I was shipwrecked here and was unable to return home even though I wish that I could. As I spoke to him my eyes looked up upon his face as he walked around in front of me, his hands still trailing over my skin as I spoke. One by one his hands moved over my exposed breasts and nipples. His fingers latched on to my nipples in turn as he pulled and stretched them and even through he was giving me pleasure, the look in his eyes had a dark evil look that made me shiver. Pleasure turned to pain quickly as his fingers latched onto my little brown nipples and squeezed harder as he began to twist my little nubs. He seemed to take joy in the twisted expression on my face as I struggled not to cry out and to continue with my tale of being marooned here. You do well to hide your emotions he said, as he pulled harder. I fought within myself not to cry out in pleasure or pain as he continued to work on my oh so sensitive little nipples with his large rough fingers.
As I finished my tale he released my breast and nipple, looked down and shook his head and told me that he does not believe me. The next sound I heard was the air rushing out of my lungs as his balled up fist slammed into my tummy and pushed up slightly under my ribs causing my diaphragm to spasm and choke off my air supply for a moment or so. I wanted to bend forward, cover my tummy to ease the pain but being bound tightly to the poles there was nothing I could do. As my breathing returned to normal, my gut still ached and I feared that another strike in the same place was coming, and I was right, his fist impacted a second time in the same spot causing my breath to stop and leaving me with a feeling that I needed to throw up, but since I had not had anything to eat, all I produced were painful dry heaves.
As I began to recover myself from the second blow to my mid section, I heard a loud crack followed by jolt of pain running from my backside, up my spine to my brain. This was followed by another and then another. I did my best not to cry out in pain, as additional sounds were heard followed by more waves of pain. My flesh was beginning to heat up back there and then the noise stopped but the pain was still there. The second inquisitor moved in front of me, my eyes then focused on the device he was holding in his hand. It had a wooden handle about a foot in length. Connected to the handle by a metal right were about twenty leather strips about thirty inches long and about ΒΌ to Β½ inches wide.
He raised his hand holding the device then let the leather straps trail teasingly up my tummy, over my shoulder then across my face. You like my little flogger he taunted, but I did not reply. He asked me again why I am here, and of course I went with the same shipwreck explanation that I had already given earlier, which they still did not believe as evidenced by inquisitor number two raising his flogger and bringing it slashing down over my right breast and sensitive brown nipple. I so wanted to cry out but I steeled myself and almost bit my lip to silence myself. I did not want to give them any indication that I was in any discomfort, but they were professionals having had done this many times... they knew.