The evening following Claire’s trial, Joan comes to visit the woman condemned to death by crucifixion. Joan is in a rather cheerful mood, lavishing soft touches on Claire’s bare body. Claire is somewhat less jovial. She asks Joan “Did you hear they are going to leave me to die on the cross?”
Joan leans down and takes one of Claire’s nipples in her mouth. In a sultry tone she said “They always leave they there till they are dead.”
“You should be happy. You wanted to be crucified” Joan adds.
“I did want to be crucified but I didn’t want to die on a cross” Claire says in a whine.
“What did you think happened to all the women we saw on the cross? Did you think they took them down after we went back to town and got drinks at the saloon” Joan asks. “No, they left them crucified until they died!”
“I hadn’t considered that” Claire said.
“Well, you should have! I did some incredible things with Archbishop Wragg to get him to let Tree crucify you” Joan says in almost a pout. “Now raise your hands!”
Claire lifted her still cuffed hands and Joan lustfully licked Claire’s breast. Joan purred “And don’t you think you’ll look better than any woman we have ever seen on a cross?”
Claire whispered “I might, but I am still getting over dying on one.”
The next day, Claire is brought before Tree. He was not in a good mood. In a harsh tone he said “Claire, you have been found guilty of killing your grandfather. You have been sentence to be put to death and will be crucified a week from tomorrow. Part of delay is the archbishop made me promise to use a premium French cross.”
“I just wanted to be crucified. I don’t want to be put to death” Claire exclaims.
“We don’t treat murderers with mercy” Tree says sternly before he adds “though I have to admit, if someone wants to kill me, getting fucked to death is the way I’d like to go.”
Tree’s cousin Joan looks up at Claire from her perch at Tree’s feet. She thinks how wonderful Claire will look hanging naked on her cross.
Claire is sent back to her cell where she drops to her knees. Any hope of salvation has disappeared from her soul.
She looks down at her bare body and laments “You are so screwed, Claire…”
And Claire’s statement was true in more ways than one. With Tree’s tight hand on the budget, the guards are not restricted from using Claire as often and whenever they desire as added compensation. Two days before Claire’s date with the cross one of the guards snuggles up behind her and rather cordially says “Are you ready for a round with me?”
Claire rolls her eyes and says “Would it matter if I said ‘no’?”
The guard says “I just thought it would help pass the time. If you don’t want…”
“It’s not that” Claire says. “Could you take off these chains and make love to me like the woman I am?”
Totally against the rules, the guard removes the irons Claire wears and gives her some of the best sex she can remember. In between her multiple orgasms she says “I’d have never killed grandpaw if I had known you.”
Perhaps it was a slip of his tongue when he replies “I’ll miss you when you’re gone.”
He doesn’t bother putting the irons back on Claire when he takes her back to the cell. Locked in the small room alone, Claire can’t believe she has thrown away her good life.