"You're
found guilty of theft and disrespect to the magistrate. For those crimes your
body is forfeit for a period no less than three days. You will serve your
sentence in the county penitence hall where your punishment will be meted out
by the good citizens of this country," the judge said, blood red robes and
dull chainmail draped over him.
"Wait, I
haven't been allowed to defend myself, your honor," Laurana said as the
two bailiffs closed in on her, leers plastered over their faces where they
weren't hidden by the leather hoods they wore. "Please, hear me out-"
"Quiet,
whore!" one of the bailiffs yelled, grabbing Laurana by the neck and
slamming her forward over the podium in front of her. The other bailiff seized
her hands, manacled behind her back, and took hold of the chain while the first
bailiff clipped a lead onto the collar Laurana had been fitted with upon being
arrested.
Laurana gasped
for breath as she was jerked upright by the lead and shoved back towards the
door of the courtroom. She staggered down the aisle, vague glimpses of leering
male faces filling the benches to one side and a scattering of pale,
terror-stricken female faces on the other.
"Party at
the penitence hall, boys!" someone yelled from the crowd and there was a
cheer that filled the courtroom.
"You're
gonna get the punishment of a lifetime, you filthy city slut!" another man
yelled. Other men took up the chant of, "Slut! Slut! Slut!" and a
couple of the ones nearest her made a lunge for her only to be brutally smashed
down by the billy clubs of the bailiffs.
"Order!
Order in the court this instant!" the judge roared, slamming his warhammer
down against the steel surface of his tall desk. Sparks rose from the fury of
his blows and the courtroom silenced immediately. "Next man who breaks the
peace will be thrown into the lockup for a week!"
Laurana
wondered why this seemed to cow the men so suddenly. They had been ready to
riot a second ago. But they still all watched her out of the corner of their
eyes and their expressions were rapidly changing from fear to glee as they
elbowed each other and licked their lips.
"You're
not gonna be able to walk straight when we're done with you, whore," one
whispered as Laurana was pushed through the doorway and out into the town
square.
It had been
meant as a shortcut through the mountains, a faster way to get to the north
after another round of punishing negotiations with the Lemishites and the
minotaurs. Unseasonable storms had kept all the ships penned in the harbors and
the captains said it was unlikely to get any better for weeks, if not months.
The few captains who weren't cursing and drinking away their sorrow at being
trapped in harbor instead of making the last run of the season weren't
interested in her troubles.
"Go ride a
dragon," one had angrily said to her when she had tried to get him to sail
her to Palanthas. "Umberlee doesn't care how much steel you've got this
late in the season. You'll have to head north and get a ship past the
Maelstrom."
Laurana had
ached to commandeer one of the messenger dragons but in her heart she knew she
couldn't tie up one with taking her back to Palanthas, a trip that would be a
good week by dragonback. She settled on riding one with a surly messenger who
kept trying to grope her to an outpost just a week away from the norther port
cities. She'd need to cross the mountains but then she should be free to find a
vessel that was sailing for Palanthas.
But at the
outpost she had learned that the quickest route was already blocked by snow and
suicide to attempt. The lower passes were still open but she'd have to take a
detour and lose another week.
In desperation
she had joined up with a small trader's caravan whose master said he knew a
quick way through the mountains. The pass was narrow, barely enough for his
carts and small wagons, but it was there. There was even a small country
located in a wide mountain valley where they'd stop at the midpoint.
The journey had
been trying at the least and infuriating at the most. The caravan master had
thought to take more than her steel in payment for the trip and she'd had to
break his nose before he and his hired thugs left her alone. But then they had
reached the mountain country and she'd decided to ride ahead of the caravan and
try to find some local to guide her the rest of the way. The caravan master had
warned her not to leave, citing vague threats of local customs. But she was a
trained diplomat and if she could deal with Lemishites and minotaurs then she
could deal with mountain yokels.
She'd ridden into
a fairly normal seeming town, even if it was rather heavily fortified. And the
people had been some of the most dour she'd met in her travels. There were
almost no women out on the streets and the few that were traveled with armed
male escorts.
She had stopped
at the market square and dismounted by the water fountain to take a drink. As
soon as her hand touched the water a great alarm sounded and a half-dozen
guards poured out of a dark guard post to seize her. She'd been too stunned by
the over reaction to even fight back. Not that she could have when they were
each dressed head to toe in dark steel plate and carrying long spears and heavy
tower shields.
Then she'd been
dragged to the courthouse for that sham of a trial and now she knelt chained in
a large, tiled cell in what they had called the penitence hall. They'd
confiscated her clothes when she'd arrived. Well, more like ripped them from
her body, and forced her to wear a short linen shift that barely covered her.
As foul and
humiliating that treatment was, she'd seen prisoners treated similarly all over
Ansalon. And the guards had been professional. None of them had tried to grope
her naked body as she squirmed into her shift. They hadn't even seemed to leer
at her either, mostly they seemed bored or vaguely impatient as they had led
her down the hall to her cell.
They were
strange mountain people, she though as she knelt. Definitely overzealous in
their approach to law and order, she thought as she tugged at the chain leading
to her collar. She could lay down if she was right by the wall and she did
wonder why they bothered to chain prisoners inside a cell with a massively
thick wooden door. She couldn't even hear a sound from outside the door and
hadn't heard any other prisoners as she had walked by other doors on the way to
her cell.
Now there was
just the question of her punishment. The men in the court had been perfectly
vile in their tone and manner, but perhaps they were also criminals waiting
their sentencing. If they were also on trial for drinking some water from a
fountain then they had a right to be angry at least.
Three days
punishment, she wondered to herself. She supposed they had a mine or quarry or
perhaps a logging camp. It wouldn't be pleasant but she'd worked herself harder
during the war. And she could spend the time planning on how much she'd bleed
them for when she came back with a Palanthian legal team and a squad of
dragonriders. These inbred hicks had arrested the wrong traveler.
She jumped as a
slot in the door slammed open and a guard looked in on her.
"Oy, on
yer feet, face the wall. Hands on the wall, head down," he snapped.
Laurana rose slowly and obeyed, chain clinking. She heard the door open and she
started to look behind her but froze at the sound of a crop being cracked.
"Don't
look up, bitch!" the guard yelled. "Spread those legs and get that
ass out!" There was a horrible thunk as the door closed behind him,
sealing out the hallway.
Laurana froze
in horror. What was going on? This must be some rogue guard-
She yelped as
the crop slashed down and slapped against her ass. "Now, slut!" the
guard roared and then knocked her legs apart with his booted feet when she
didn't react. "That's gonna cost you later," he whispered in her ear
as he took hold of her hair and held her head down.
"What are
you doing? This is intolerable treatment! I am an ambassador of-" Laurana
screamed as the crop was brought down on her ass again.
"Yer just
a slut working off her duty in here," he grunted. Laurana gasped in horror
as the crop lifted her shift and then slid between her spread thighs. She tried
to close her legs but the guard knocked them back apart with his feet.
"Stop it,
stop it, you can't do this to me!" Laurana cried out as the tip of the
crop ran over her bare pussy. The leather was cold against her and she moaned
in disgust as he pushed the tip of the crop between her nether lips.
Laurana jerked
around and smashed her fist into guard's face as he leered at her exposed
backside. The crop dropped to the ground and the guard followed, out cold.
Laurana knelt and furiously searched him, finding a key ring on his belt. She
had her collar open and was searching the guard for a weapon when she heard the
sound of the door being swung open again.
"Got a
fighter, here, don't we?" the guard standing there said. "Foreign
city sluts always try to fight the law." He turned to the other guards.
"Go prep the Room, our little elf slut here has decided to do things the
hard way."
Laurana backed
into the corner, heart pounding as the guard tapped his billy club against his
palm. "See, this being your first offense and all, you were going to get
off easy, especially since his honor knows you city sluts ain't got a clue on
how to behave properly."
"You're a
bunch of savages!" Laurana hissed.
"Oh
really? Well, we were going to take you to a nice room with a bed and all the
water you'd want. You were going to get away with just having to fuck his honor
a few times, that would have been real easy. He doesn't last long, especially
with elves." The other guards chortled. "Passes out maybe a couple
minutes in. But seeing how you assaulted a guard, you're going to get treated
like a repeat offender and that means you'll be doing penitence all night.
Ain't going to be just one judge, slut. We've got a whole town waiting to make
sure you get your punishment."
The guard waved
and two other guards moved in holding poles with loops of rope dangling from
the end. With practiced ease they slipped the loops over Laurana's head despite
her best efforts to fight them off.
"Room's
ready, sir," a guard said from the hallway. "I think Jorgleson
blabbed 'cause there's already a line waiting."
"Fucking
bastard, he goes to the end of the line if he likes it so much, we're first
with the slut."
"I call
her mouth," a guard holding one pole said. "She's feisty, bet she's
real good with her mouth."
"Ass,"
the other guard holding Laurana said to her mounting horror. "I've never
gotten first crack at an elf ass," he said to the other guards.
"They're still tight by the time I've had 'em, but I always wondered if
they'd been even tighter the first time."
"You can't
do this," Laurana moaned in terror. "This isn't- this isn't
right."
"Well,
I'll get her cunt," the leader of the guards said. "Feh, any chance
this one's still a virgin?"
"This
one?" a guard laughed. "Look at her, she probably won't even notice
she's being fucked until the hundreth cock goes in." Laurana's eyes
widened in horror. Surely they were exaggerating? Her mind was reeling with the
thought of these few guards violating her, their hands groping and clutching at
her while their cocks- she tried to shut out the thought and shook her head
wildly.
"Yeah, you
know these city sluts, they spread their legs as soon as you look at them.
Sorry sarge, you shoulda called her ass faster." Laurana began to
hyperventilate. This was a nightmare, she'd wake up back in her bed. This
wasn't possible, this casual banter about her imminent gang-rape, being treated
like a piece of meat, a paid for whore.
"Yeah,
yeah, I'll get the next one," the sergeant said as he led the group out of
the cell with Laurana in tow. "Hey, we caught that wilder elf bitch, she
been processed for punishment yet?"
"Oh, hey,
she hasn't, sarge," one said as they walked down the stairs.
"I've got
her ass then," the sergeant said. "In fact, bring her up once the
first couple dozen or so are done with this slut. The elves can put on a little
show, maybe dance a little, eh?" he said with a wink and leer to Laurana.
She couldn't
help but whimper as they turned a corner and walked towards the open double
doors leading into a large room the size of an auditorium. There were a variety
of tables, benches, racks, and frames for holding the human body. And there in
the center was a pillory mounted on a large, tall platform. And waiting in an
impatient queue lined around the edges of the room and watched by a half-dozen
surly guards in full armor, were the men from the courthouse, their eyes fixed
on Laurana's struggling form.
Laurana winced
and moaned with each step as she was led from the torment of the punishment
room and through the corridors of the penitence hall. The cold floor sent
prickles through her bare feet and raised goosebumps on her naked body. Her
hands had been bound behind her once again and she was led by guards holding
poles with loops of rope on the end. One yawned widely and the other laughed
and yawned too.
"Long
night, eh, slut?" the one on her left said. Laurana trembled and looked
down at the tile floor as she hobbled down the corridor.
"Surprised
she can even walk, guess she's used to nights like last night," the other
said with a leer.
Laurana barely
suppressed a sob. Each step sent throbbing aches through her body. Even the
hardest fought battle hadn't left her in this condition. Every muscle ached and
her hands and jaw were sore from the attention she had been forced to give to
what seemed like an endless stream of men and their seed.
Laurana
staggered and was shoved upright by one of the guards. She could feel the men's
seed dribbling out of her still. Even after that poor Kagonesti wench had been
forced to lick her clean over and over until Laurana was screaming and sobbing
out a helpless orgasm.
"Time for
your public appearance, slut," one of the guards said. "Check yourself
out and make sure you're presentable."
Laurana looked
up in a daze and saw a filthy wanton staring back at her in the full-length
mirror standing just inside the main entrance to the hall. The elf woman she
saw was splattered with drying streaks of come, long trails of it caked in her
hair and in the golden bush between her thighs.
Laurana swooned
and had to rest her hands on the mirror frame to steady herself. That close to
the mirror she could see the tracks her tears had left in the come splattered
across her face. She could smell her own breath, stinking with the men's seed
she'd been forced to take and swallow.
As she leaned
back she could see the reddened marks on her breasts left by countless men
groping her mounds, squeezing and kneading them over and over, their fingers
teasing and pinching her still sore nipples. She shuddered when she saw the
long caking streaks of come on her neck, trailing down to her breasts from when
the men had gotten tired of violating her pussy and mouth and had fucked her
breasts, making her squeeze them together for them to push their cocks between
until they finally shot their load onto her neck and tits.
"Pretty as
a picture," the guard said. "Let's go."
Laurana slowly
followed, tears of utter shame and humiliation welling in her eyes again. She
had thought she had run out of tears during the night after countless men had
violated her, their laughs and jeers filling her ears as they grunted and
thrust.
There was a
roar of applause and cheers as she was led out of the hall and down the steps
into the square. What seemed like the entire town had turned out and they were
whistling and catcalling as she was stopped and forced to turn to show the come
caked on her back and ass, her ass still red from the stinging spanks delivered
by the men mounting her from behind.
Then, to
Laurana's continued humiliation, she was forced to bend over, the guards
pushing her head down with their poles.
"Spread
those legs," one guard said matter of factly. Laurana was shaking and tears
continued to trickle down her face and she could barely move her legs. With a
grunt of annoyance the guard knocked her slender legs apart until her violated
pussy was bared for the crowd's pleasure. There was another roar of laughter
and approval as the guard gripped her sore ass and spread her cheeks so the
crowd could see how she had been taken there and the dried come there.
"Let this
serve as evidence that this harlot, this criminal," the judge cried out to
the crowd, "has been thoroughly punished to the full extent of the law!
Let all see that this foreign whore has received justice as is fitting and has
been treated as is warranted by her behavior and slatternly disregard for our
law!"
Laurana moaned
and tried to choke back her tears as she was held in that humiliating position
for another minute, the guards forcing her to turn herself back and forth so
the entire crowd could have a good view of her shame. Finally, after what
seemed like an eternity she was allowed to straighten. Even the humiliation of
standing naked, the evidence of being used by dozens of men on clear display,
was better than having to bend and spread herself before the crowd.
"Oh my, I
can only once again express how sorry I am for bringing this disreputable whore
into your fine country, my lord," she heard someone say. She looked over
her shoulder and with a sinking sensation in her stomach she recognized the
merchant she had traveled with.
"As well
you should be, sir," the judge said. "I trust you'll be more watchful
as you leave our country. I'm letting you go without a fine this time but
should this harlot escape and break the law once more there will be stiff
fiscal penalties for your venture."
"Of
course, of course, my lord," the merchant said. "I take full
responsibility for removing this back alley trash from this country. She will
trouble you no longer."
"Y-you
bastard," Laurana whispered as the merchant walked over and wrinkled his
nose at the pervasive smell of sex rising from the elf maiden.
"Now now,
ambassador, you should thank me," he said.
"Thank
you?"
"If I
wasn't here to take responsibility for you then you'd be forced to work off the
rest of your sentence and the mandatory fines and fees," he said.
"This way you get out of the country without having to spend another
couple months on your back. Of course, if you'd prefer to earn your freedom
that way-" he turned and Laurana cursed herself for how quickly she begged
him to come back.
"Please,
just take me with you," she said through gritted teeth.
"Of course,"
he said with a wink before turning back to the judge. "I've talked with
the whore and she agrees completely. I'll be on my way as soon as
possible."
"Good,
good," the judge said. "Let's just finish up the last part of the
sentence."
Laurana froze,
ice running up and down her spine as her eyes widened and she began to shake
uncontrollably. There was more? Her eyes darted around the crowd, seeing the
leering faces there and the eager whisperes among the men.
"The
prisoner will cleanse herself and declare her penitence," the judge said.
Laurana's heart
pounded as the two guards led her to the side of the stairs where there was a
large metal grate set in the ground. An equally large water pump stood beside
it with a long handle that was attached to the pump over Laurana's head.
Laurana sighed
as the loops of rope were removed and she stood shakily, thighs clenched
together, trying not to look at the crowd. She was unable to block out their
voices though and she heard men commenting on how well she had held up all last
night and how skillfully she had sucked their cocks.
"Best
whore I've ever had," she heard one saying. "Took my cock down her
throat like she was born to it."
"Tightest
arse too, I'd have said she was a virgin except she was spreading her legs like
a professional from the start," another said.
"She's an
elf, they're all born whores!" the first said to a peal of laughter.
"Clean
yourself, harlot," the judge said as he removed her manacles and let
Laurana rub her aching neck and shoulders. She spun away from the crowd, trying
to hide her shame as she stood by the pump.
"Oh, I
don't know, your honore, maybe you shouldn't make her?" the merchant said.
"I mean, I'm not entirely sure she dislikes her current state."
"We're not
in the business of letting sluts do what they like," the judge said
darkly.
"I know, I
know, your honor," the merchant said. "But look at her now, I think
she's an example of how sluts should be treated and how that treatment will
turn out. Perhaps if you leave her like that she could serve as an
example?"
The judge
contemplated this as he studied Laurana. She felt his eyes on her and she
cringed in shame, silently praying that she could at least have the tiny
dignity of cleaning herself of the filth of so many men.
"No,"
the judge finally said. "From my reports and personal observations this
harlot enjoyed her punishment far too much to be allowed to wear the results as
some sort of badge of honor. She will clean herself now for the good of the
country. I won't have a harlot prancing about displaying her whorishness to all
and sundry without care or dignity."
Laurana looked
up at the pump lever and moaned to herself. She'd have to stretch on her tip
toes to reach the lever, maybe even jump. "Do it, whore!" the judge
said. "We don't have all day!"
Laurana bit
back tears and reached upwards, her back arching as she stood on her tip toes,
breasts thrust forward for those of the crowd standing to her side. There were
whistles of appreciation at the sight and repeated comments of how much they
had enjoyed squeezing and sucking on her breasts.
Laurana tried
not to cry when she realized she couldn't quite reach the lever. Stretch as she
could, her breasts jiggling as she bounced on her toes, she couldn't reach it.
With a sob, she jumped and grabbed the lever, pulling it down with her weight
and sending a flood of icy cold water sluicing over her.
She shrieked as
the mountain cold water ran down her body, sending a milky white froth of water
and come spilling down the grate. Her nipples were burning as they hardened and
stood from her breasts. Her entire body trembled, her breasts jiggling as she
pushed the lever up and hauled it down again, sending more water over her body.
Laurana's teeth
chattered uncontrollably as she worked the pump with one hand and scrubbed at
her soiled body with the other. Her hair was the hardest part to clean, the
seed had been caked in so thoroughly in some spots. But at long last she was
done, cleaner and chilled to the bone, huddling with her arms around her
breasts and vainly trying to cover her crotch as the crowd cheered and
applauded the show.
Laurana sighed
gratefully as the merchant threw her a towel. She dried herself quickly,
scrubbing away at the last stubborn patches of come still stuck to her thighs.
But when she tried to wrap herself in the towel it was yanked away by the
guards.
"State
property, slut," he said. "You're wearing this until you get across
the border."
Laurana's jaw
dropped as they produced the stocks. A smaller, lighter version of the pillory
she had been trapped in for the first degrading hour of the previous night, she
didn't have the will to resist as they clamped her wrists and neck into the
boards.
She could only
close her eyes and shudder as they attached a chain to the front of the stocks
and handed the end to the merchant. Then a guard moved behind her and carefully
pinned a thick sheath of paper to the back of the stocks. She could feel it
hanging down and brushing against her shoulder blades as she walked.
"What-
what is that?" she whispered to the merchant as she followed him towards
his wagon. The crowd parted slowly, the men still leering at her with dreadful
eyes.
"Just a
list of your crimes and punishment," the merchant said. "Nothing to
worry about."
He tied the chain to a bracket at the end of his wagon and climbed aboard as his guards climbed onto their horses with grins and leers directed at the flushed, shuddering elf princess standing dejectedly by the wagon. Neither her or his guards mentioned the fifty clean pages of paper with clear lines and the legend, "Punisher Log - All citizens must sign log before punishing crimnal. Log must be complete prior to prisoner release at border."