OK, I was asked…
Queen Tricia and her two consorts Barbaria and Siss have been crucified by the barbarian warrior Tree who has plundered the treasures of Queen Tricia for both his and his marauders’ personal gain and used some of the sovereignty’s treasure to buy off guard, army leaders, and peasants. During the day the three women hanged from their crosses on a walled riser that overlooked Tricia’s capital where the three had spent idyllic (and sometimes passionate) afternoons with Tricia’s former subjects looking from below. As evening falls after going the much B.S. (
Barbarian
Security… what were you thinking?) a crowd of several hundred of Queen Tricia’s former subjects are allowed onto the raised hill the women are crucified upon.
Siss yells as some throw stones at the crucified women “She was queen that suppressed you- stone her!”
Barbara cries “Queen Tricia made sure you were fed, clothed, and sheltered! How dare you throw stones at her?”
So the crowd started to stone Barb. Tree understands their frustration but yells “Enough! These women have been dutifully crucified to free you from the bondage of servitude. I demand you allow them the full torment of the cross or I will take your heads and your women for my pleasure!”
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That settled the crowd down. The barbarian looks about pleased with their compliancy knowing that he and motley crew would be long gone before the pampered menials died upon their crosses stealing as much of the sovereignty’s treasures of coin and winter’s harvest their stolen draft horses could carry. Long after the women will die on their crosses Queen Tricia’s subjects would be selling daughters to the slave trader based in what we now call Amsterdam just to stay alive…
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…But for that night all was good…
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