Don't worry - I'm just measuring your extension from the cross...
It's all about geometry and perfect alignments, you know.
Something is sticking out in that pic
I think Kathy wants to measure someone's "extension" as well.
Apologies to those who were looking forward to a "grandiose" whipping session in this story - sorry! I leave it to your imagination.
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Barb spent the night alone, frantic about her impending fate. That scum of a husband has had his revenge, ensuring that she is cast down and executed in a most painful and humiliating way. Yet part of her was unrepentant. She did not regret taking a lover, she had felt truly alive for the first time in years. She would die knowing that she had wounded Punito deeply, and had found fulfillment in her sexual life not with just one lover, but with two. Would she see Nubia again before she died?
The magistrate had taken to this noble criminal who had come before him, and wished to privately supervise her scourging and preparation for the arena. No stripping was necessary as Barb's arms were raised above her head and securely fixed to a beam overhead. With slow, deep breaths she prepared herself for the pain to come . . . .
He looked at her for a long time, she really was a beauty. That smooth slim back, the tight little arse beneath, ready and waiting for him to make his mark. His hand touched her gently on her side, very close to her exposed breast, and slid down to her hip, his index finger crossing behind to trace a line over her buttocks. He would start there, he decided, a couple of good strikes across her tight little and then up to the lower back.
"Hand me the scourge there, that's the one. Domina, ready yourself."
An unexpected firm voice broke his concentration.
"No."
Punito strode into the room, his eyes taking in the naked bound figure of his wife, and the man ready to paint bloody pain across her back.
"No. I do not wish it, sir. I wish for her to go to the arena unmarked. I wish for her to go to the cross whole, unscourged, unbloody. I want people to see what a beauty she is, what she has thrown away in her foolishness and selfishness."
Caius Crucius Punito was not a man to be denied.
"Of course, Senator" the magistrate replied, unable to keep the disappointment out of his voice.
"It will be as you wish. Perhaps we will keep her bound here for a time, like this, it will be good discipline for her. Would you care to join me in a cup of wine? Perhaps you would like to take her body, one last time, if you don't mind me watching? I confess I would like to experience her too. She does look so inviting strung up like that! And perhaps, Senator, you will even reconsider and allow a light use of the whip?"
"Hmm, a few strokes to get her dancing might be acceptable, to warm her up for other pleasures. Pass me that wine, man."
Barb gritted her teeth and cursed the perverted magistrate, her body tensing at the distinctive sound of leather cutting through the air . . .