A cold thunderous wall rose up behind me a huge horrible wall, and it was all wrong to soon. A granite hand wrapped around the back of my head and finger clasped onto my face. Yanking me back off my knees, Father for whom else could it be, swept me across the floor. Talons of pain pierced my head, rage poured off him and a striped away any courage to fight. I stared blankly at his shirt vaguely aware I could make out the out line of his ribs, when the world swirled again and he held me pressed against his upper arm so that he could take a good look at me.
I don't know what he saw but staring up I saw a mask of horror, then he cranked my head back. The sorry excuse for a dress almost ripped under the strain. Until then maybe the monk was too shocked or took me for dead, hanging as I was right now. He could see me now and I went from wishing the pain away to wishing him away. Father followed where I was look and the monk came back into his view.
I raised my right hand to stop him from whatever it was that he might do. He grasped my wrist pressing it across my chest and forcing it to push my left breast up and outward. And at the very worst moment that only added to my escalating terror, I felt the one strand of fiber fail and that simple sound jumped across the upper part of my breast and landed solidly singled out among shuffling, pounding hearts and combined primal sounds escaping from our family tiff.
"How could you? After all that was done for you, make this grievous error?" He roared in my face. I knew from mother, and tales told wide and far, that if he wanted to he could tear me apart piece by piece and devour me whole. So I didn't say a word.
"You break the one rule I left and this is what came of it?"