Hi everybody!
My "Seven Ordeals" story, published on DeviantArt and Art Untamed, has reached a point which is well suited for this place...
A few extracts, with new images ( translated to english with the help of
@Eulalia )
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They fetched her from her cell and dragged her naked body over the stone slabs to the torture chamber. She shouted, pleaded, without them listening. Then she heard their tirades, their accusations:
"There are witnesses! They saw you pick up the javelin and throw it at the count, he was pierced through his heart!"
They laid her naked body on a frame and stretched her limbs. Between cries and sobs, she protested her innocence:
"No, it's not true! I didn't do that! There was a monstrous beast that had taken possession of my sister! It was in a dream! Nothing was real ... have pity!"
And they laughed and scoffed as they hit her. Then the Royal Judge, banging on the desk with his gavel, declared:
"You are an Amazon of the Sisterhood of the Black Serpent, and you entered the city of Frolia in contempt of the law. The punishment is death! You murdered the king's brother, Count Robur, with a javelin through his heart. The punishment is death!"
Then they loaded a great beam across her bruised shoulders, and tied her torn hands to it. She had to walk in the sun, staggering beneath the beam on her shoulders, up the hill under the hail of stones and rotten fruit thrown at her by the angry mob, and the lashes that slashed across her bloody back. She walked to the place of her execution, and collapsed at the foot of the big post planted at the top of the hill. Then they untied her, and stretched out her arms on the beam.
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