Dungeon Whippings
Six weeks in the king’s dungeons for slapping his sleazy minister of finance was a miserable and unjust sentence, but alone, it would have been an endurable one. After scandals under King Eli The Foul, the king’s guard was reformed, and is now a fairly upright crew, with their captain even a priest, of surprising probity. There would be no abuse from those men. But the minister demanded corporal justice, and the king said “Whip the wench, then, if you must, while she’s in the cells. As much as you like, so long as she does not bleed under your whip.” The minister is a nightly visitor:
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