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When I'd scrawled an attempt at my signature, I glanced up at Zeta. He was smiling smugly. I wanted to spit in his face. Yet I felt drawn to him, almost protected by him now. I was still crying, feeling sick with horror at the betrayal I'd just committed. But there was a sense of relief, in total defeat. Rat pulled the Bench out, I lay myself on it, hands stretched above my head ready for shackling – though I no longer needed that - gave myself up to him.
When he and his colleagues had enjoyed me, I saw Captain Scorpio was present, ready to take over. I shivered as I stood at the ready before him. I'd thought perhaps now I'd broken my silence and given them names that might satisfy them, but that was a vain hope. He was holding a small, shining steel ring with a tiny screw and a slender chain attached. "Hold out your hand!" I offered him my left, but he snapped "No, right!" I cried out as he took my hand and slipped the ring onto my thumb, which was still tender and recalled instantly the pain of the Thumbscrew. With a small key he tightened the screw, I whined "Oh, no Sir, please don't!"
Now he led me to stand again on the platform facing the Control Room. There he ordered me to raise my right arm, and he connected the thumbscrew-shackle to the Pulley. He then went to his place at the controls, the Cadets completed my preparation for Torture, taking my left wrist and pulling it down behind me, raising my right ankle and linking it to that wrist, then shackling my left ankle to a ring immediately below the Pulley, midway between the ones that had earlier held my ankles apart.
Scorpio carefully raised the Pulley, tugging my poor thumb so I was lifted up to tiptoe. So I was ready, standing like a ballerina on the point of my right big toe, my left arm and right leg forming a bow-string behind me, forcing my body back in a graceful curve, my right arm stretched high. An elegant, sensuous pose, my thighs felt a warm pleasure at the tension imposed on my hips and groin, my breasts, lifted up by my ribcage, were firm and stiff-nippled. But pain was pulsing in my thumb, leaving me in no doubt that I was in this position for one purpose – to suffer!
The acid-voiced woman Interrogator began. Yes, I'd named my friends, but now I had to denounce them, think of all manner of crimes they'd committed against the State – at least by careless word or negligent act. She started with my cousins – I knew they'd already got Carina, not sure about her sisters, but she'd obviously got a fat dossier on them like she had on me, I could only struggle through all my memories of holidays and outings with them, chatting, playing, planning our dream-futures – happy memories, now turned to horror as I was forced to twist our innocence into crimes.
The Torture was all too simple, all too effective. Scorpio had simply to jerk the Pulley up, let me dangle for a few seconds, drop me and jerk me up again, and again and again, till I was shrieking for him to stop, pain shooting from my thumb down my arm, through my torso and into my stretched leg.
And the list of girls I had to denounce was a long one, all my friends from Forest Pioneer days through to University, Mum's friends and Laura's too. She pressed me on some –Lucia, really my best friend over the years, we'd had our differences but always made them up, now they're building up the case against her ... I couldn't be sure whether she and the others they were interested in were already captured, or whether they were going to be, but knew all too well that they'd be made to listen to my recorded voice saying vile, utterly false, things about them.
At last there was a pause. No Confession this time, the Interrogator evidently needed time to check on what I'd been saying. I was released, fell on my knees, sucking my tortured thumb. A Cadet fitted the thumbscrew-shackle on my left thumb in readiness for the next stage. Scorpio had chosen the right one first as my stronger arm, I'll break sooner on the left. The Interrogator wasn't away long, I was hauled up again and shackled with my left arm and right leg stretched.
According to that malicious hag, some of what I'd said was untrue, contradictory, inconsistent with other information they had. More recordings were played to me, Julia was among them, her young voice shrill and hoarse, no doubt from prolonged Torture; but Lucia's wasn't, perhaps she's still free? Any way, I'd earned Punishment, and by God I got it.
To supplement what was already unbearable, the Torturers fitted crocodile clips to my nipples so Scorpio could inflict electric shocks at the same time as jerking and dropping me, the sharp movements these caused adding greatly to the torment focused so exquisitely in my right thumb. Even worse was the addition of the flamegun, played on my right foot while I was dangling on the Pulley, making me twist and kick helplessly with my stretched, shackled leg.
No question of resistance now, I could only struggle to work out what it was she wanted me to say, I'd say anything, however appalling, to get even a few moments' relief from this cocktail of cruelty. The men – Scorpio, the Torturers, the Cadets, even the Medical Inspector – were all too obviously enjoying the sight of my naked dance, rubbing their cocks delightedly, urging each other on in their cruelties.
I became increasingly confused, incoherent, my head was in a foggy maelstrom, I must in the end have lost consciousness, as I found myself sprawled half-on, half-off the platform being unshackled by a Cadet. They dragged me to the table to read, memorise and sign a further Confession of concealing information and attempting to impede the arrest of enemies of the State, then they flung me on the Bench for Scorpio and his men to have their share of enjoyment from my still pain-racked body.
When they'd satisfied themselves, they left me, still stretched out on the bench, with just a beer-swilling Cadet to guard me and slavegirl Piglet cleaning up with her knickers. I dozed, semiconscious, for some time before Zeta and his team returned. When my wrists had been released, I pulled my self to my feet, then fell forward on to my knees, and threw myself down into the "submission" posture – partly because I was too weak and shaken to stand, partly because I felt instinctively that was what he'd require.
"So, Eulalia, you've decided to co-operate?" "Yes Sir," I sighed, weakly. "You accept defeat, I've won, you've lost?" "Yes, Sir." "Good. A shame you didn't choose to make things easier for yourself, but it has been my pleasure, and my colleague Captain Scorpio's, to bring you to your senses. But you must stand up now, there is one more matter to be attended to." I struggled to my feet and stood at the ready, swaying unsteadily, looking with pathos and terror at his cold blue eyes. The office-slave brought a document, placed it on the table. "Read this," he commanded.
I turned, picked it up with my shaking, agonised hand, and read the opening words, "I, prisoner number 381152 Eulalia Merida confess that I am an enemy of the State...." I gasped in horror. I knew exactly what those simple words meant – if I sign it, I'm signing my own death-warrant!
"Oh, no, Sir, please, no...." The thought of the many, sadistically ingenious ways they have of torturing girls to death, I could not face it, I was pale, my legs shaking, I thought I would faint.
The Cadets grabbed me and hauled me across to the platform. Within seconds they had my arms jerked up behind my back and shackled to the Pulley, my ankles shackled again to the ring in the concrete. Zeta returned to the Control Room.
"Why will you not co-operate, you stupid little bitch?" "Sir, please ... I can't confess that, I'd be signing my own death-warrant!" "Precisely. And that is what you're going to do." With a touch of a button, he jerked the Pulley up, my arms and shoulders were instantly tortured by the strain on the muscles as my whole weight was hung on them. I howled for mercy, he responded by dropping and jerking me.
My mind was racing – please let me faint, please ... perhaps I'll die now? ...." but the pain was so intense my mind could not escape into oblivion. He ordered Piglet, "Bring the weights" In three journeys back and forth to the cupboard she brought out a series of weights in pairs. A Cadet released my ankles from the chain and fitted the lightest weight, 5 kilos, to each of them. Zeta repeated the Pulley Torture.
The pain was even worse, but it prompted a last flicker of defiance "Bastard!" I yelled. He laughed, 10 kilo weights were fitted. I remained silent, except for gasps, during the next infliction. A pause, neither he nor I said a word. 15 kilos. That was the end, as he dropped and jerked me up I shrieked, "Yessss! Yes, Sir, let me sign it, please!"
He let me drop. "What did you say?" "Sir, I'll sign it ... Sir, please, no more ...." "Cunt! I don't believe you, you're just playing for time." He hauled me up and repeated the drop and jerk, I was groaning, "No, no, Sir, no more..." Again he lowered me. "You've given me trouble, haven't you, sow?" "Yes Sir, I'm sorry Sir." "You deserve to be punished don't you, sow?" "Y-yes Sir, I d-deserve to be p-punished...." "Heat the Irons, Piglet!"
The weights were removed from my ankles, my legs stretched wide apart and shackled to the rings at the corners of the platform. A hood was plonked over my head and tied tight round my neck, I thought I was going to be strangled, but I was just able to keep breathing. He raised the Pulley so my arms were forced up again, I was hanging now, my feet clear of the floor, legs splayed. I felt male hands grasping my hips and legs, holding me,
"Aaaaaah!" My pussy-lips contracted in a sharp burst of pain as hot iron seared them. The metal slid inside me, skin and subcutaneous flesh hissing, my whole body thrust up to try to escape but of course in vain. I felt the burning intruder thrust up and down inside my squirming pelvis. After what seemed an eternity, it was pulled free, I remained there suspended, writhing, wailing in pain.
At last my ankles were released, the hood removed, my body dropped, my wrists unshackled. I fell to my knees, rubbing my burning genitals with my hands, but Zeta kicked me, grabbed me by my hair and dragged me to the table.
I read out the Confession in a broken, halting voice. Before I could sign, Zeta spoke, "I have to ask you this formally. Prisoner number 381152 Eulalia Merida, do you understand that the Confession you are about to sign will convict you as an enemy of the State, for whom the only penalty allowed under Military Law is Torture to Death?" "Yes, Sir, I understand that." "And that once you have signed it, you will have no right to revoke your Confession, nor any appeal?" "I understand, Sir." "Very well, then, sign at the bottom of the page."
One final time I scrawled a spidery tangle, then burst into tears. The office-slave quickly snatched the paper away. Piglet was pulling out the bench, but Zeta said, "No, this time she can be fucked on the floor, where she belongs – down, bitch!" I lay back then positioned myself in the bridge posture, soles and shoulders supporting me. He lowered his pants and straddled me. My cunt was still fiercely hot from the iron, he must have found that all the more arousing as he impaled me with his weapon, and rode me in triumph. It was a good, long swiving, incredibly I experienced orgasm after orgasm, I was yelping and gasping in a wild mixture of pain and ecstasy. As his semen finally flooded my tortured woman-parts, I sighed, "Thankyou Sir, thankyou for everything!"