"You what?" I asked, shocked.
Farrah seemed to puff herself up. She uncrossed her arms and put her hands on her hips, as if in defiance. Her nipples were perky and cute. "That's right. I'm a murderer. I was working as an accountant. And my boss was an absolute witch." Her eyes went a little glassy as she remembered. "Worked us hard. Criticised every little mistake. She was horribly unpleasant to be around and made me feel so small."
"You are small, Farrah," said Riley.
"One day, I couldn't take it anymore. I grabbed an axe, I went to her house, and I brought it down on her withered old lady head." Farrah started to choke as she said this. Her eyes had tears in them. "Almost immediately, I felt the horrible guilt. I washed the blood off myself in her house and slipped out. And when I got home I kept trying to wash the blood off. I felt like I stank of it."
This filled me with disgust and contempt. Her beautiful face with that aquiline nose looked like a shadow was cast over it.
"You're an idiot," I said. I started walking around her, like a predator teasing its prey. Something about us both being naked made it
primal
. She side-eyed me, which only made me feel more powerful. "You could have gotten away with it if you were smarter."
Farrah smirked. "I'll bet you were caught the same way I was. Your Sir just showed up without warning, pointed a crossbow at you, and told you to strip off. I was at work at the time. After weeks of being torn apart by the guilt, seeing that woman's face in my dreams and behind every corner, Sir shows up and I'm naked in front of people I see every day. I was supposed to think my way out of that?"
I scoffed. "You're so weak! You're weak! A coward! You kill someone and at the first pushback you get, you give up! You submit to this whole... this whole... You let a guy strip you naked and tie you up and tickle you!"
Farrah seemed to go sad at that. She wasn't looking at anything in particular. "I
am
weak. I
am
a coward. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm being punished. This is a good thing."
I felt a spark of rage in myself. How could this woman allow herself to be degraded - to be tickled and naked and spanked to the point of tears - and not want to fight it every step of the way? What was
wrong
with her? How could she simply accept the shame within her?
"Alright," I said. The fury in me had become focused. I knew what to do next. "You think you deserve to be punished? Let's do it then. Let's punish you." I shoved her to the ground.
"Hey!" cried out Simone.
I ignored her. I straddled Farrah, pushed her right arm up, and furiously tickled her.