“Now, Sister Barbara, this is your last opportunity to confess....."
“I’ve nothing to confess!”
“Silly child! Then you shall be forced to do what you refuse to do.”
“I’ve nothing to confess!”
“Very well. I leave you to be persuaded by other means. Please wait until I’ve left, Father Patrick, before the torture begins. I’d rather not listen to her screams.”
Evidently, Father Patrick is a Dominican friar, called in to the convent to deal with young women like Sister
@Barbaria1. The Dominicans were the agency through which the Holy Office enforced orthodoxy and obedience in the Church...and they were ruthless. Next to the various Inquisitors General, the Dominicans
were the Inquisition.
Although not accused of witchcraft (at least not yet), S. Barbara will be further interrogated, and will be persuaded to confess to whatever Mother Superior "desires." There is a suspicion that what Mother Superior desires is S. Barbara's pale flesh. Mo.Spr. wants it in her bed, and she wants to secretly watch S. Barbara suffer in the special particular chamber in the sub basement of the Convent. Mo.Spr. has a spy hole in the room next to the chamber so she can watch the proceedings. She likes it when the girls writhe. It makes her very wet.
Fr. Patrick, following the
Mallevs Maleficarvm, will employ differing means to get the appropriate confession from the nude, frightened girl. He has numerous methods from which to choose. There are: the hoist and weights for strappado wrenching her delicate shoulders; the funnel to force four quarts of water into Barbara while cords are brutally twisted around her slender arms and legs, and the fire. As she reclines on the "bed," retching from the water torture, and groaning from the agonizing cords, her dainty feet, rubbed with fat, will be exposed to a low fire of coals. The coals will be refreshed from time to time by a bellows to increase her anguish. Barbara's groans would increase by an order f magnitude. There would be a torrent between Mo.Spr.'s legs.
All around the "particular chamber" there are other persuasive instruments which Fr Patrick might apply. Pincers to tear flesh and rip the breasts; awful things to put inside the terrorized girl, and other devices too hideous to name are at his disposal. Some are designed for use on tumescent nipples.
Hopefully, Sister Barbara will quickly confess to wanting sex with Mother Superior. Such a result would preserve her beauty and her sexual charms for the coming nights. She can always be interrogated again at a later time about some other "transgression." If she will not confess, there is always Sister
@Eulalia. And there is that new French nun, Sister
@messaline