In her stead she sent men and women to the shackled king. Her former lover, the captain of the torturers guild found himself committed to the dungeons that he had formerly presided over. XXX She had planned to take the princess into her care, lead her out of the forest and inflict grievous punishments upon her for daring to run from the punishment that she so richly deserved. *****
As we know, fate has a great part to play in our lives. Called from the dank depths of the bottle cells and the iron barred holding pens, their victims were brought to suffer in the bed while the Queen and her new consort played their games of sexual passion and anguish. During the day she suffered the bites of the horseflies and the damp of the light rains that descended drop by glittering drop through the canopy of green far above her head, until one day she
