Chapter 28 – The Punishment Commences, 7:40am May 12th 1864
Without warning Lieutenant Sampson kicked the crate out from under his captive.
Hanging full stretch, by the wrists, her footing lost, Catherine fell and the appropriately positioned sedile impaled her virgin orifice in a single thrust.
“Noooooooooooooo!” She wailed as the impact of the brutal penetration pierced her core.
There was no cheer from the crowd just a simple, dramatic awestruck silence.
Her scream was like that of a dying animal, the pain cut deep into her most private parts, all her childhood dreams of virgin marriage torn asunder.
Now she was used, sullied … spoiled. Catherine’s anguish was all consuming. Her mind was spinning, her body opened and entered with such violent intent.
For a moment or two she felt nothing, but then the tortured girl cried out in agony as she writhed and thrashed, tugging and twisting at the manacles trying to free herself ... but she soon gave up, leaving the skin of her back and shoulders stretched irrevocably tight … and her thighs opened … ready for the whip.
The bound girl’s finger nails dug deep into her palms, as tears of defeat shimmered in her eyes. Choking back a distraught sob, her breasts heaved in slow, quivering breaths,. From out of the corner of heavy-lidded eyes she saw the guards depart and the bare-chested brute who was to flog her, encroach.
Catherine could feel the sedile deep inside her body. It had hammered through her hymen without a pause and filled her so full of pain and torment. It felt huge, swollen … she was immovably hooked.
General Sherman turned his gaze away. He should put a stop to this … the Lieutenant seemed to be pushing things too far. But yet … He knew how important it was that they get to the bottom of Catherine’s nefarious activities, but that wasn’t what was focusing his attention, as the unwanted swelling in his army combat pants signified. He was finding the manhandling of his beautiful Goddaughter an extremely stimulating experience, and he was not minded to bring things to a halt … at least not yet.
“The Lord is with you chil’” A lone voice of support came from the onlookers, no doubt the words of loyal Mary.
Sherman looked up at the peachy rear of the chained girl, and let his gaze roam higher over her slender waist and then back down to her smooth thighs. He regretted the manner in which Catherine had lost her virginity, but collateral damage in times of war could not be avoided. His focus was on the bigger picture, it always was.
Catherine’s forehead fell against the post as she gripped at the chains with her flailing fingers … a useless attempt to haul herself upwards and away from the insidious wood carving. She was awash with unwanted sensations rocking instinctively against the invasive appendage, silently begging for blackness to descend, but that was not going to happen … not yet. For now, she was to perform for her audience, a pornographic doll chained to a wooden stage … this was what they had reduced her to.
"You fucking Reb whore," came a more dissenting shout from the crowd.
Catherine let out a long howl. Restrained as she was, all she could do was wriggle like a fish on a hook, a sexual marionette from one of those lewd French novels she had read about.
Then she felt her hair being heaped over her shoulder, freeing the entirety of her back ready to be properly beaten. Lieutenant Sampson shouted out the words almost everyone wanted to hear, words that she had been dreading.
“Begin!”
Chapter 29 – Whipped, 7:57am May 12th 1864
The small amount of sedile that was exposed and not embedded inside her body was stained red with her virgin blood. Catherine could not sense the flow squeezing out from the tight sheath her labia had created around the wooden phallus, but she could feel the pain between her thighs … the agonising cut of the sedile where the wood entered her body, spreading her, opening her for all to witness.
Her mind was numb, her body aching like never before … as she waited.
Just waited …
The silence was deafening. The chained girl could only hear the sounds of ordinary life, noises that came from nature; The swooping yellow and black bobolinks pecking at the crops, the rustling of the trees and the fields of corn. Only the occasional nervous cough from the viewing crowd broke the sounds of silence, every watching body now high beyond measure on anticipation.
Shepherd, the overseer, maintained the whips at White Orchard, and stiffening wax rendered this bullwhip taut as a rod. Moaning with distress at her appalling impalement, Catherine jumped as the lash was cracked against the dusty ground, soliciting an audible gasp from the onlooking gathering.
The warming sun poured down piercing the sparse cloud, burning into her pale, unprotected skin. Anticipatory tremors shook her, small beads of sweat forming on her forehead and upraised forearms. The more conscious she grew of the punishment she was about to take, the more difficult it would be to remain silent.
Distracted by a sudden breeze blowing specks of dust around the base of the platform, she glimpsed back, and saw that the man whose half-naked body already glistened with sweat, had taken up position behind her.
Panic induced terror infused her spine and stiffened her body. Why was he waiting? Was he was sizing up her tolerance for pain, how long she would last under the rigors of his lash?
As she twisted her head just a little more, his eyes met hers, bewildered, vulnerable and filled with tears. Time seemed to close in around them. As he put a leather glove onto his right hand, his gaze never wavered from her hanging body, that was still … just waiting.
“Pl… pl … please ...”
“You wish to tell me something?” the Lieutenant moved closer to the chained girl, a quiet inquisitiveness lingering in his tone.
“Y … you don’t ...h … have to do this ...” she begged, gazing back at him with doleful eyes, her face tight with a sudden, desperate, weak smile.
He waited for her to say more … she did not. It was time.
The blackest despair Catherine had ever known came upon her. To her rear a ready fist gathered round the gleaming handle of the shining lash, just waiting to be deployed ...
“Commence the first round.” It was Sampson’s clear instruction that issued the dreaded command.
“... Oh God, help me please ...” she wailed in horror, each breath more shallow than the previous one, as her bare back tensed in a futile attempt to limited the impending damage.
Too numb with fright, too shocked to even plead or beg, Catherine heaved her chest, breasts pushing against the post ...
The approach of footsteps made her heart race. The brute of a man unfurled the whip as he moved. The taut, wiry lash came alive in his hand, slithering as it sprang forth, bouncing lightly, lithely tapping the dusty floor.
The stiffened lash, whisked up with a quick, fluid whistle, and came down with a sharp, snapping slash, sending a cloud of dust into the air … an horrendous test of her nerve.
Catherine was frantic. Releasing a cry of terror in anticipation of the pain that never came, she sobbed, the deceptive stroke stirring a wild panic inside her mind. She pressed her smooth, bare thighs together, squeezing the sedile, her body twisting and squirming.
Once again, he lifted his fist, and the sound of the whip whistled with cutting clarity. This time she thrust her gaze forward, wincing, lips parting in disbelief, trembling, breathing fast. He let the whip fly through the air and she clenched her fists. With eyes closed tight, she prepared for the worst … and felt the whip curl around her body with a loud crack.
As if from a distance, Catherine heard herself draw a shuddering draught of air. Panting with loud, hysterical hoarseness, unable to draw breath, she lifted her cuffed wrists with desperate strength, raising herself a little from the rigours of the phallus inside her body.
Legs bent at the knees, feet lifted, unable to see the thin, scarlet stripe now adorning her flesh ...
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the tip of the lash vanish and braced herself once more … then heard it whistle and repeat its crack. The jolt came just below her hips, above the relentless stiffening in her loins, leaving a deep, thin burn on her flesh.
Stoically Catherine confined her reaction to a gasp, her face twisting with the intensity of pain ...
The third stroke lashed the delicious curves of her buttocks, forcing a loud grunt. It sliced the skin clean through, leaving the red welted streak, raw.
With effort, and overwhelmed by the need to cry out, Catherine choked back the whimpering sobs now welling higher in her throat. She had heard the slaves say that once a victim of the lash started to scream the fight was lost.
Another whistle through the air, a resounding crack … the slashing sound of breaking skin and Catherine was slammed against the post.
She lost control then, consumed in a fit of convulsive shuddering, and she realised that by not screaming she was only encouraging him to whip her harder ... and he duly obliged!
Gazing briefly backwards, twisting hips around her impalement, she saw his muscular body rotate from side to side, twirling the long, stout coil over his head in a circular motion. Like a lasso rope, each swing emitted a portentous whooshing noise, gaining momentum ...
Then he plied the whip lengthwise across the middle of her back with an even louder and harsher slash, as it dug deeper into the skin below her shoulders, driving a shriek of agony from her lips.
She knew with dreaded certainty that she could not withstand this severe flogging for long. Two more strokes fell, fizzing and searing into her flesh …
Despite the unbearable pain, the invasive penetration and the degrading humiliation, she had to hold on for as long as she could.
The bullwhip pounded her slender body, cracked on more tender skin, this time deep inside the clenched curves of her buttocks ... soft flesh that burned in its fervour ...
Then she could fight no more, and at last Catherine threw her head back, her long hair flying wildly loose, and released a shrill, tortured scream.
Perverse cheers rose from the crowd, a smattering of depraved applause and an all-round stiffening of groins.
Once again, the whip sought to slake its desires, thirsting for her agony. Curling the leather around both thighs in a serpentine manner, the whipmaster released another wild, excruciating crash to slice at her bare skin...
Yet again Catherine thrashed and gritted her teeth, unwittingly driving the phallus deeper into her own body … her wooden assailant fucking her hard …
The man was clearly an artist with the whip, chosen for the task because of that very reason, and right now Catherine McCown was his nubile, human canvass. He hurled his arm backwards and then applied a burgeoning drag movement that drove the lash inexorably forward, this time landing diagonally upon her back ...
The penultimate strokes of this first round of whipping were hurled upon her with a hellish, unforgiving fury, the fiercest by far. She greeted each with a primal scream of hoarse, uninhibited abandon, her mind blurred by the burning hell of this endless beating ...
Then, when the final lash fell, shearing the backs of her thighs with a ripping crack, her scream reached a flaring, piercing crescendo ... then suddenly faded!
To Be Continued ...