As Nora and her daughter sat in the cell, made more comfortable by the food and water and blankets, she finally began to think about all that had happened. From the arrest on she had been terrified and just reacting to the situation but now she really began to think about where they were. She looked over at her daughter who sat against the wall crying, not even using her blanket.
Jodi sat there whimpering until her mother came to her and arranged the blanket for her to sit on and cover herself. She tried to comfort her daughter until Jodi pushed her away and cried, "Do something, don't let them hurt me anymore. I can't stand what they did to me and what you did to that man." With that she began to cry hysterically. Not knowing what else to do, Nora slapped her hard across her face, shocking her into silence.
"I didn't enjoy sucking his dirty cock. I did it so they would not hurt you so much. They whipped me too. We would not be here at all if you had not bought the dope. You brought all of this on us." We that Jodi started crying and Nora took her in her arms to comfort her.
"I'm sorry mom, I'm so sorry. I know it is my fault and you did nothing. Please forgive me." The two topless women sat there, one holding the other, until the daughter fell asleep. Covering her, Nora retreated to her own blanket and lit another of Franz's strong cigarettes. She had always enjoyed smoking with her husband, especially after sex and smoking now was comforting to her.
Finally Nora fell asleep and awakened when sunlight struck her face through the cell window the next morning. She heard the cell door opening and a guard left food and fresh water and then gestured to her to follow him. She slipped on her blouse and left Jodi sleeping. The man took Nora to the hut she knew was Franz's.
"Come in, come in please and sit" Franz said as he gestured to the table. As Nora sat down a young woman set the table and brought coffee and bread and cooked meat. Nora started to refuse and then thinking the better of it began to eat. Franz sat opposite her and devoured three times as much food as she did.
"I like you, my American friend." he said. "I want us to get to know each other."
"We are not friends, " she told him, "you are my jailer and my torturer and I do not want to be your friend." Nora continued eating calmly, thinking that she should try to stay strong and leave more of the food in the cell for her daughter.
"Very well, " Franz said as he smiled at her, "I am your jailer and your torturer and you should remember it. We will continue your whipping in a few days and you should decide if you want it hard and brutal, or if you want the light treatment got yesterday?"
"I would like for you to give us the light treatment, sir." Nora said as she realized their very lives were in his hands. "Whatever you say, sir." She hated being so meek and docile but for Jodi's sake, she knew she had to appear that way to him.
"Good, good, then you shall join me in my bed today. I want first for you to suck me again like yesterday and then maybe I shall fuck you. What do you say to that?" He grinned at her as he sat by the bed and began removing his trousers.
"Please don't make me do this, I am an American citizen and you can't make me do this."
"GUARDS, " he shouted, "Come and get this woman. She and her daughter will soon be dancing and bleeding at my whipping post today." He laughed evilly as he looked at her waiting for her to react.
The guards drug her from the hut toward the whipping posts and began tearing her blouse from her body. As they tied her hands over her head Franz came out with a long black bull whip. Nora began to beg him not to whip her but one of the guards gagged her with a dirty rag. Soon she was standing with her feet barely touching the ground her daughter was standing between two guards before her.
Franz stepped behind her and she heard the swish of the long whip coming. It cracked loudly and she would have screamed if she had not been gagged. The pain was 100 times worse than yesterday and she knew she was bleeding. The long whip had struck across the middle of her bare back and had wrapped around her, leaving an angry welt which extended from her back, through her underarm fur and across her right breast. She continued to shudder and cry into her gag as trickles of blood ran from the lash mark.
Franz came around in front of her. He paused to gently fondle her breasts taking time to rub the welt causing her pain. He looked at her teary eyes and then untied the gag. "Perhaps you would like to reconsider my generous offer. Or shall I have you watch while I finish your daughter's sentence with my favorite whip?"
Her voice was hoarse and ragged as she replied. "No, anything you want. Please don't hurt us anymore." Franz motioned and Nora was taken down and dragged to his hut. A crying Jodi was taken back to the cell. Nora was laid gently on Franz's large bed and soon a nurse came in. The shy woman didn't talk but smiled at her as she applied an ointment to the whip weal. Nora realized there must be some kind of pain killer in the ointment because most of her pain went away.
When Franz did not come back to the hut, Nora helped herself to a glass of wine and ate some cheese and sausage she found. She then lay down, still topless, on her stomach and began to think about their situation. Nora had come from a working class family. Her husband had also, and from his hard work and brilliance they had become affluent. Nora very strongly believed in laws and justice and did not question Franz's right to have she and Jodi arrested and even punished. Nora was very firmly against drugs and was horrified at what her daughter had done.