The agony of Margaret
Margaret shivered when the executors removed her chlamys leaving her bare naked. Not due to the morning dew, because the sun was shining and despite of the time - and it was four o'clock a.m. - the temperature was pretty moderate. Nor due to the shame, though she was ashamed as hell, but for the moment there was not a single spectator on the hill, save two young soldiers who were preparing her for the torture, and they weren't interested in the much older and not especially attractive woman. She shivered with fear: she shivered, seeing the bunch of a five-inch-long nails, ready to be hammered into her flesh.
The soldiers treated her exactly the way she expected: as a worthless animal to be slaughtered. They grabbed her hands and forced her to lie down on the cross. They pushed the tips of nails against her wrists and lifted two heavy hammers up. The first strokes of hammers made Margaret cry wildly and try to break free but the metal rods were just fixing her hands to the wood. Then, pressing her feet against one another, they positioned the third nail. Soon one more iron rod pierced her feet and she farted and pissed herself.
The soldiers finished, stood up and of them kicked her ass while the other spat on her face and on her vulva. Then they lifted the cross, letting the nailed woman to hang on her wounds. She weeped and the tears of pain flowed down her cheeks.
When hanged vertical, she was simply left here. Both men looked up on the crucified, tormented and exposed, spatting on her once again, and marched to the city, leaving the dying woman solitary. She cried in pain and tried her best to keep the palpitating muscles of her legs in order but all in vain. The pain was overhelming and disabling. She felt she wasn't able to bear such pain any longer. She cried for quick death, but the gods were silent and didn't answer the cursed whore. And she understood that it was a stupid wish of a stupid woman only: she knew she must be dying many long hours till the final death.
And she was left for a while only. Because ten minutes later the four armed soldiers appeared on the same road, and the crowd of citizens followed them. Soon the hundreds of eyes begun to watch the naked woman, and hundreds of mouths laughed at her and mock her. People played throwing the curses and small stones at the victim, dying in the utmost torment and humiliation.
Minute after minute and hour after hour she became weaker and more exhausted, until finally at the sunset, when all the citizens disappeared and the soldiers made a campfire and sat around, she croaked with a weak voice and hanged motionless. Then one of the soldiers pushed the red hot, flaming branch into her vagina to check if she was really died, but then she cried aloud and painful, lifting her body up in enormous pain. So they sat down again and waited.
It took two more hours for the victim to die properly. Just before the midnight the soldier once again pushed the burning branch between the legs of the crucified and into her anus. And this time she didn't make any move nor emit any voice. The soldiers smiled, satisfied: at least they could go home.
The agony of Margaret ended.