5
With my sister ripped to pieces, the trinity of evil – Ioannides, Sheng and Zeta – turned their attention to me. They ordered Sara and Averil to replace the torture-irons in the fire-basket, the slavegirls added more coal, we waited while I contemplated at the instruments growing crimson, scarlet, bright gold, prepared to sear my skin and gouge into my flesh: that red-hot poker they'd used in Laura– and Executioner Buron's own little bit of mischief his special branding-iron with which he'll his handiwork.
When they decided the irons were ready, my tormentors were commanded to "soften me up", as if I were a newbie just arrived in the Stripping Room! The Engineer set the Wheel spinning, while all four Cadets thrashed me enthusiastically, their sadistic vigour all the more aroused by the sufferings they'd just watched inflicted on Laura.
When they'd got me screaming and squirming in pain, the Wheel stopped, and Buron approached with the fangs of those pincers held open, hungry for my naked nipples. The way I was hung on the Cross gave me no choice but to hold upwards and outwards my nicely-rounded though not large breasts, as if I were thrusting them towards him in longing, coaxing him to bite. And bite he did, not into the flesh as they'd done with Laura (I doubt this was mercy, only to ensure I survived a good deal longer under Torture), but right on the nipple – stiff, plump, wickedly aroused by the strange hormones of fear. He pulled and twisted at it for what seemed eternity, then with a violent jerk that drew a screech of pain from me, he ripped the little shoot of flesh right out. Triumphantly, he waved the smouldering fragment in front of my face, then forced it between my lips, "Eat it, slag!" My mouth was too dry to taste much, it was hard to swallow, but I managed.
Meanwhile, he'd returned to fetch a second set of hot pincers to repeat the torture on my other tit, my distressed cries were all the worse, knowing what I was going to suffer. He used a series of red-hot bars to sear long, smoking scars on my aching flanks, armpits and thighs. Then he ordered one of the Guards to remove the spike from my cunt. I was shaking in terror as it was quickly unscrewed and withdrawn from my flesh, dripping with my blood and juices. Buron was holding the poker in readiness, deliberately letting it cool somewhat, too great heat would destroy all feeling, he was going to ensure I experienced every moments of its contact with my most intimate parts.
When he forced it in, slowly, turning it, twisting it, thrusting it up and down, my body responded instinctively, heaving to its rhythm, bouncing my buttocks against the spikes, twisting my torso as if in erotic ecstasy instead of hideous pain. The watching men laughed and masturbated shamelessly, even the senior Officers, this was the spectacle they most enjoyed, a girl's helpless response to the cruellest rape of pain.
At last he ceased, I slumped, sobbing and gasping, but I knew there was more to come. After he'd watched me, enjoying my ongoing struggles to cope with the internal pain, he turned and drew his branding-iron from the flames. Where will it be? He held it before me, letting me tense my muscles in preparation, Then he suddenly pressed it hard, right on my cleavage so that it burnt into the skin and fat of both my breasts. It was in the form of a big letter B, but laid on its side so it looked like a pair of breasts, and it formed a deep purple hieroglyph between my two bleeding, mutilated aureoles. "Victim of Buron", that's what it proclaimed!
The audience applauded, a Cadet refitted the Spike into me, it hurt hellishly as it rasped against the scorched flesh in my vulva and vagina. As soon as his colleague had screwed it into position, the Wheel was spun again and the girls had another game with their whips, this time competing to lay strokes across the very points where Buron had just tortured me. Their aim was pretty good, I felt several cuts especially across my breasts that drew shrill shrieks of pain from me.
The sun was sinking as the dignitaries departed, Laura's slow dismemberment and my torture by Buron had taken at least two hours, now there was a bit of a pause in the day's programme of entertainments. Not that there was any relief for us girls hanging crucified, still fighting to flex our legs, pressing down on our nailed feet - the pain unbearable – to ease our other agonies in aching shoulders, steel-tormented groins. Breathing was hard labour in itself, and our mouths were burning with thirst. I wanted to communicate with Barbara, but I couldn't possibly call out to her, and I'd have been punished if I'd tried. I gazed in her direction, her head was bowed, she was gazing intently at her spiked, bleeding feet, watching the slow, cautious movements of her long, stretched legs, her hips rolling gently as she did so. Even in my agony, I felt pleasure in the beauty of her suffering body.
And there was filth, all our bodies had voided uncontrollably whatever was in our bowels and bladders, the stench, along with the pungency of our blood, sweat and other oozing, gobbing fluids, brought black swarms of crawling flies, which by now had laid eggs in our festering wounds, eggs that were already hatching in the damp warmth to writhing maggots.
During the day, little attempt had been made to cleanse the Place of Execution, the filth and foul smell were an important part of our torture and humiliation, and of the fear-provoking spectacle intended for the citizens of Elclud. Only the observation platforms where the VIPs sat were washed down and sprayed with some strong disinfectant. But in this late afternoon interlude, a gang of slavegirls had the job of cleaning the place, and us victims, up. Local, Elcludan youngsters, bright, cheery schoolgirls just a few weeks ago, now learning how their lives will be in the new, civilised, order. Overseers, whip-wielding Cadets of much their own age bullied them along, just like in the IPCG. They carried buckets of water, but they had to use their bare hands to scoop up solid waste and drop it into empty buckets, and they stripped off and used their briefs to scrub the pavement, the Crosses, and us.
By the time a pair of the lassies reached me, their water was foul, their knickers worn to scraps of rag impregnated with everything a tortured girl's body can excrete, but it was still a relief to feel the moisture swabbing my body, especially the many ultra-sensitive parts still stinging from the hot irons and whiplashing. So they could reach my legs and mangled genitals, one of their slavedrivers turned the Wheel to hang me upside down once more. When they'd finished, one of them thrust her panties into my gaping mouth, I sucked at it furiously, not caring what was in the disgusting liquid, biting on it so she couldn't pull it out, so mad was I with thirst. It took a lash of the overseer's whip across my face to compel me to release it.
It was dark when the slavegirls finished, lights were on the city below, and huge powerful floodlights illuminated the Place of Execution, if we were conspicuous by day, we must have been omissible by night. Preparations were now begun for the evening's amusements. Over to my right and left, I was aware that there were two more braziers burning, one in front of Erica and Carina, the other by Gaby and Lucia – indeed, while I was being tortured by Buron, I was vaguely conscious of screams from other girls, no doubt they do were being subjected to similar abuse.
In front of these braziers, close to the Castle wall, were two tall poles, higher than the Crosses of my Wheel, with ominously spiked tops. Before these, all day long, stood Afra and Gejo, the two brown-skinned youngsters – Afra probably mixed, Gejo certainly Asian - managed like Laura and Marie by Guards ensuring they missed nothing of the horrors they were being made to witness. Now a party of Officers arrived and performed the routine of "Name and number? Repeat your confession. Your sentence is...." I couldn't hear precisely what the Director of Punishment said, but the phrases "coated with hot pitch", "impaled on a sharp stake" and "set alight to illuminate the Place of Execution" were sufficient.
The two girls were terrified, Afra started to scream and struggle, but her Guards soon subdued her, Gejo simply burst into tears. They were flung face-down on the ground, their limbs quickly trussed, right wrist to left ankle, left to right, then they were kicked to roll over and lie face up, wriggling helplessly.
Slavegirls had heated pans on the braziers, and these were now lifted by Cadets and the contents, thick, black pitch, was poured over their bodies, the slaves using their knickers to spread it across every bare inch. It was hot enough to make them yell. They were rolled back to lie face-down and the remaining pitch poured over their backs and the long, lush, tangled hair that beautified both of them.
Now cherry-picker vehicles were driven up to where each girl lay. Guards lifted their victims and carried them onto the platforms, which were quickly raised to bring them level with the pointed tips of the poles. The girls were being held heads upright, facing the giant phalli to which their bodies were promised, they were crying ad wriggling, but of course quite helpless, as they were swung forward, their forcibly-parted thigh straddling the pole-tops, the points of which were carefully located, then they were pressed down and allowed to drop onto the impaling stakes, high notes of exquisite pain ringing across Moro.
The cherry-pickers lowered the Guards to the ground, the two victims were left for a while, twisting and shrieking in unspeakable agony as the weight of their own bodies forced the torturing pale deeper and deeper into them, ripping their genitals wide open.
Then the Guards mounted the platforms again, this time one carried a fuel-can, the other a long-handled flame-gun, the kind that had been used to torture us girls on crosses. They were lifted up to their moaning victims, the contents of the cans poured over the pitch-painted bodies, the vehicles drew back a little way, the flameguns fired and at once the two bodies were swathed in flame, from which echoed hideous cries.
The platforms were lowered and the vehicles withdrew. The big flames soon subsided, but were replaced by smaller flames and a general bright glow, veiled by wisps of smoke, over each still-squirming body. Afra and Gejo were still alive and very much conscious, and so they remained for a long time as the pitch slowly burnt away, gradually consuming their skin and subcutaneous flesh, two glowing girl-lanterns visible for miles across Moro.