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Magistrate
I`ve never been in politics at all. But when I heard about that revolt in University, I knew I would be involved. The poor kids thought that they could protect the autonomy of their university if they occupied it at the beginning of the semester in September.
The government let them doing it, gathering, holding forums, standing out to press conferences, until all the data were being collected. I was watching them in TV and guessing which would be my client. That slim guy with cheap eyeglasses? Or that busty girl in loose sweater that still could not hide her huge tits?
Then the operative units broke down all that nonsense and the trials have started and lasts all the winter. Sentences were coming out one by one: Crucifixion, five hours, crucifixion, ten hours, twenty hours...
By march our operative team got the schedule. All the sentences were suspended until June, some for next year. The summer was the season of execution. We had three months to arrange the shifts. I got the name of my first: Leia Parry. When I started this job, I used to search for it on facebook. This year I just checked it when I had business around Crassus Park. This was a normal park during the year, even not the most popular. It was a long, narrow green field between the river and the tramway, with two curvy passages among the trees, crossing each other sometimes. The crosses along them were just like park statues, work of a constructivist sculptor, until spring, when tables were posted besides them with pictures of convicteds and exhaustive, but comprehensive text about their sentence, crime and their background that lead to their faith, at least regarding the Court of the Dtate. This was the first time I "met" my client, when I checked this poster identified by the cross number I got. When I stopped in front of it, I faced a young slim girl, just caught, scared, in a comfortable high-waist jeans and loose T-shirt suitable for sleeping in a lecture room. She had adorable face and beautiful long, deep black hair. Regarding the text she was a second-generation city-dweller, using the opportunities of public scolarship to get higher level of graduation than her parents. She listened to indie-music and joined some urbanist NGO, like Cyclist Federation or the Office of Student Government. I didn`t know how much dignity she got of all these things, but I knew for sure that the government wanted me to deprive her all of it, within two months. She was going to be crucified on 6 of June, 9 AM.
When I arrived to the cross on the day of her scheduled day, I knew that I would meet a different person.
Apart from the tracking leg-brace she had to wear she could live her normal life, but with the knowledge that her time was approaching. She might tried to prepare for her twenty hours on the cross somehow, or she just tried to forget it, but it did not matter. This was the experience she would never get prepared to.
By the time she appeared, already a dozen people gathered who had checked her picture besides the cross and were curious about her body and suffering, not counting the two policemen to secure the event. She was in another, darker jeans and a brown summer top, with buttons above her chest. She was slim and quite flat. It was clearly seen how she backed away seeing all the peope around her cross. I wawed her to let her know that I was she had to forward.
-Miss, I am Zac Edwards, the executioner of your sentence. I will be here with you all the time until the end of the process. First we must wait for the official representatives of the State to get all the official affirmation before we start. -She listened to me paralyzed and that was what I wanted. It had a tranquillizing effect to know what would happen from minute to minute, even if it was a bad thing for her. My duty was the smooth fulfillment of the whole process, and this was something that could not be done by primitive sadists, but only real professionals.
The bailiff, the lawyer, the notary and a medic gathered in the office in the building beyond the tramway and the four-lane avenue, but they were not going to late.
-Have you made lots of crucifixion? -The girl asked me to escape from the fear running up from her stomach. She took the glances of the people around who checked her body in real life.
-Trust me, miss, I will not cause unnecessary pain. -I answered the almost official response. She put her hands to her backpocket to do something with them, and started chattering.
-This underwear they sent me is very comfortable. I may use it later. -She laughed nervously.
-I hope you brought a change, miss. You will not get it back when we will be done. -I warned her.
-Yes, yes. If only I could put it on already.-She was silent for a moment. -Do you think I can survive twenty hours up there? -She asked at last.
-It`s very unlikely, miss. But do not worry, my responsibility to take you down before it get dangerous.-She was thinking a moment, trying to understand what I had said.
-And what then? -She asked finally.
-Then you will be rescheduled for the remaining part of your sentence. -This was a risky moment, when she had to realize that this was not the only occasion she had to go up to the cross. But at last she was able to comprehend and accept it.
-How many times used to be carried out a 20 hours sentence? -She asked.
-Depends on you, Leia, can be just two. -I answered. I used her name very consciously. She had got some honest answer from me, this was the right step to deepen the trust between us. Trust was the most important factor between executioner and condemned for a smooth execution of a crucifixion. I wanted her to bear the hanging as long as possible. If the sentence was fragmented to too many pieces, the last ones were very toilsome. There was a former politician who was sentenced to 50 hour for corruption. It costed nine occasion. The last ones were bearable, but after the third one we had some very nasty crucifixions, full of application of force and unnecessary struggling. I tried to avoid these kind of events.
The officials arrived in time, exactly at 8:40. They ordered the girl to sign her name and give fingerprints to prove her identity, and they validated all the parts of the cross. The medic prooved that she was prepared to the crucifixion. I didn`t miss that her breathing slowly accelerated, even if I just saw her back and shoulders. I knew when the official part ended, and softly turned her back and led to the cross. The audience started to murmure. I tried to drove away her attention from them with exact orders.
-Take off your shoes, socks, jeans and top.-I avoided polite forms, it would be weird in this situation, but still I stood calm. She nervously unbuttoned her jeans, than changed her mind, crouched and got rid off her shoes and socks stealing some glance around to the men gathered. She was thinking just about the next moment when she had to take off her jeans, but it was the better way than worrying about being tied exposed to the cross within a few minutes. She had time to prepare. I tried to keep her in the moment.
-Put them to the edge of the poster. -I commanded, then I pulled out the fixing beam at the bottom of the cross and I laid it on the ground. She stepped back, covering her underwear with her hands. I looked at her eyes and tried to be very intended, without any agression.
-Lay down!-I comanded on a flat, but strong voice, then I added more softly: "Now", as if I did say "Please".
The government let them doing it, gathering, holding forums, standing out to press conferences, until all the data were being collected. I was watching them in TV and guessing which would be my client. That slim guy with cheap eyeglasses? Or that busty girl in loose sweater that still could not hide her huge tits?
Then the operative units broke down all that nonsense and the trials have started and lasts all the winter. Sentences were coming out one by one: Crucifixion, five hours, crucifixion, ten hours, twenty hours...
By march our operative team got the schedule. All the sentences were suspended until June, some for next year. The summer was the season of execution. We had three months to arrange the shifts. I got the name of my first: Leia Parry. When I started this job, I used to search for it on facebook. This year I just checked it when I had business around Crassus Park. This was a normal park during the year, even not the most popular. It was a long, narrow green field between the river and the tramway, with two curvy passages among the trees, crossing each other sometimes. The crosses along them were just like park statues, work of a constructivist sculptor, until spring, when tables were posted besides them with pictures of convicteds and exhaustive, but comprehensive text about their sentence, crime and their background that lead to their faith, at least regarding the Court of the Dtate. This was the first time I "met" my client, when I checked this poster identified by the cross number I got. When I stopped in front of it, I faced a young slim girl, just caught, scared, in a comfortable high-waist jeans and loose T-shirt suitable for sleeping in a lecture room. She had adorable face and beautiful long, deep black hair. Regarding the text she was a second-generation city-dweller, using the opportunities of public scolarship to get higher level of graduation than her parents. She listened to indie-music and joined some urbanist NGO, like Cyclist Federation or the Office of Student Government. I didn`t know how much dignity she got of all these things, but I knew for sure that the government wanted me to deprive her all of it, within two months. She was going to be crucified on 6 of June, 9 AM.
When I arrived to the cross on the day of her scheduled day, I knew that I would meet a different person.
Apart from the tracking leg-brace she had to wear she could live her normal life, but with the knowledge that her time was approaching. She might tried to prepare for her twenty hours on the cross somehow, or she just tried to forget it, but it did not matter. This was the experience she would never get prepared to.
By the time she appeared, already a dozen people gathered who had checked her picture besides the cross and were curious about her body and suffering, not counting the two policemen to secure the event. She was in another, darker jeans and a brown summer top, with buttons above her chest. She was slim and quite flat. It was clearly seen how she backed away seeing all the peope around her cross. I wawed her to let her know that I was she had to forward.
-Miss, I am Zac Edwards, the executioner of your sentence. I will be here with you all the time until the end of the process. First we must wait for the official representatives of the State to get all the official affirmation before we start. -She listened to me paralyzed and that was what I wanted. It had a tranquillizing effect to know what would happen from minute to minute, even if it was a bad thing for her. My duty was the smooth fulfillment of the whole process, and this was something that could not be done by primitive sadists, but only real professionals.
The bailiff, the lawyer, the notary and a medic gathered in the office in the building beyond the tramway and the four-lane avenue, but they were not going to late.
-Have you made lots of crucifixion? -The girl asked me to escape from the fear running up from her stomach. She took the glances of the people around who checked her body in real life.
-Trust me, miss, I will not cause unnecessary pain. -I answered the almost official response. She put her hands to her backpocket to do something with them, and started chattering.
-This underwear they sent me is very comfortable. I may use it later. -She laughed nervously.
-I hope you brought a change, miss. You will not get it back when we will be done. -I warned her.
-Yes, yes. If only I could put it on already.-She was silent for a moment. -Do you think I can survive twenty hours up there? -She asked at last.
-It`s very unlikely, miss. But do not worry, my responsibility to take you down before it get dangerous.-She was thinking a moment, trying to understand what I had said.
-And what then? -She asked finally.
-Then you will be rescheduled for the remaining part of your sentence. -This was a risky moment, when she had to realize that this was not the only occasion she had to go up to the cross. But at last she was able to comprehend and accept it.
-How many times used to be carried out a 20 hours sentence? -She asked.
-Depends on you, Leia, can be just two. -I answered. I used her name very consciously. She had got some honest answer from me, this was the right step to deepen the trust between us. Trust was the most important factor between executioner and condemned for a smooth execution of a crucifixion. I wanted her to bear the hanging as long as possible. If the sentence was fragmented to too many pieces, the last ones were very toilsome. There was a former politician who was sentenced to 50 hour for corruption. It costed nine occasion. The last ones were bearable, but after the third one we had some very nasty crucifixions, full of application of force and unnecessary struggling. I tried to avoid these kind of events.
The officials arrived in time, exactly at 8:40. They ordered the girl to sign her name and give fingerprints to prove her identity, and they validated all the parts of the cross. The medic prooved that she was prepared to the crucifixion. I didn`t miss that her breathing slowly accelerated, even if I just saw her back and shoulders. I knew when the official part ended, and softly turned her back and led to the cross. The audience started to murmure. I tried to drove away her attention from them with exact orders.
-Take off your shoes, socks, jeans and top.-I avoided polite forms, it would be weird in this situation, but still I stood calm. She nervously unbuttoned her jeans, than changed her mind, crouched and got rid off her shoes and socks stealing some glance around to the men gathered. She was thinking just about the next moment when she had to take off her jeans, but it was the better way than worrying about being tied exposed to the cross within a few minutes. She had time to prepare. I tried to keep her in the moment.
-Put them to the edge of the poster. -I commanded, then I pulled out the fixing beam at the bottom of the cross and I laid it on the ground. She stepped back, covering her underwear with her hands. I looked at her eyes and tried to be very intended, without any agression.
-Lay down!-I comanded on a flat, but strong voice, then I added more softly: "Now", as if I did say "Please".