Jenny's heart pounded in her ears as she stared down at her feet, trapped in the cruel pillory, the cold metal biting into her ankles. Panic rose in her throat, threatening to choke her, as she watched Jucundus stoop down and place a small glowing brazier beneath her dainty toes. She recoiled instinctively, but there was nowhere to flee. As the fire caught hold, Jenny's eyes widened in horror. The flames leapt up, licking greedily at the air, as if reaching for her soft, unprotected soles. She screamed, a sound that ripped through the dungeon like a banshee's wail, the agony already unbearable. Her toes curled and flexed wildly, straining against the unyielding wood of the pillory as if begging to escape the growing heat.
Jenny felt the first searing kiss of the flames against her skin, and her body convulsed, arching against her bonds. She thrashed and wrenched, trying desperately to pull her feet away from the inferno, but the pillory held fast. Tears streamed down her face, cutting tracks through the grime and soot that clung to her skin. As the flames climbed higher, Jenny's skin began to change color. The delicate pink of her soles, once so soft and unblemished, darkened to a mottled red. The heat was intense, searing, like a thousand needles of fire stabbing into her flesh. She could feel the skin tightening, the blood vessels swelling as her body fought to cool itself.
But the pain only grew worse, building to a crescendo that threatened to shatter her sanity. Jenny's screams reached a new pitch of desperation, the sound raw and inhuman in her own ears. She could feel the skin of her soles beginning to blister, the fluid-filled sacs rising like buboes on a plague victim. Jenny was dimly aware of the warmth spreading between her thighs, the acrid stench of urine mingling with the stink of burning flesh. In her agony, she had lost control of her bladder, the liquid trickling down her legs to pool on the cold stone floor. The ragged skirt she wore, once white and pristine, was now stained and foul. Jenny's mind began to haze over, the pain driving her to the brink of madness. She could feel the skin of her toes, once so soft and supple, now crackling and splitting like embers in a fire. The blisters burst, spewing their meager contents onto the hungry flames, sizzling and popping obscenely.
"I can't... I can't take it anymore!" Jenny screamed, her voice breaking, the sound barely recognizable as human. Her blonde curls, once so bright and lively, now hung in greasy, matted clumps around her face, the golden hue dulled by the grime and sweat of her ordeal. She could see the cruel amusement in Jucundus's eyes as he watched her suffer, his lips curled in a wicked grin beneath his greyish brown cape. The sight of her naked breasts heaving with each agonized breath, the tears and snot smeared across her face, only seemed to delight him more.
The pain in her soles was indescribable, a searing, all-consuming hell that robbed her of all reason. It felt as though her feet were being ripped apart, the flesh flayed from the bone, the bones themselves turning to ash. She could feel the heat, the unimaginable, unbearable heat, eating away at her very essence. Jenny's body convulsed violently as she thrashed and wrenched against her bonds, her arms straining above her head, the muscles seizing and trembling. The wooden pole behind her bit into her back, the rough grain scratching and scraping against her sweat-slicked skin.
As her toes curled and flexed grotesquely, Jenny could feel the skin of her soles beginning to peel away, flakes of blackened, charred flesh drifting down to feed the insatiable flames. The pain was blinding, all-consuming, a red haze that clouded her vision and stole her breath. Through the fog of agony, Jenny could hear Jucundus's laughter, a dark, mocking sound that echoed through the dungeon like the tolling of a funeral bell. She wanted to beg him to stop, to plead for mercy, but the words died in her throat, choked off by the screams that ripped through her raw, abused vocal cords.
There was no escape, no respite from the torment. Jenny was trapped in a living hell.