batak_b
Spectator
I would like to post a story about an amazon warrior captured and tortured by the Romans. It is still under development, and I am quite busy, so I don't know with what frequency I will be able to update the thread.
Part I:
Sylvina slowly regained consciousness. It took some time for her eyes to adjust to the twilight. She was in a little cell, the only dim light coming from a small barred window high above. There was nothing but plane stone walls aside from the straw scattered in the corner she was lying. Her arms and her legs were chained, restraining her movements. Her head was still dizzy and she could feel the pain pulsating above the scruff of the neck, her body was aching.
Lying in confusion and growing discomfort, Sylvina slowly started piecing her memories together. On the second day of the year’s sixth new moon she and her three companions went on a two-week patrol at the outskirts of the Amazons’ territory. For one year, she had lost twelve of her warriors to the Romans, but Roman activity in area was suspiciously low in the past nine months with very few incursions and skirmishes. Two days into their mission, Sylvina was increasingly uneasy, the forests being often silent. The next days they reached the ravine leading to the next valley but sensing that there could be ambush, she decided to lead her warriors along the perilous climb across the northern ridge. Following a secluded path, the four amazons entered the valley but the Romans were waiting for them there, a whole centuria.
That must not have been possible, but Sylvina did not have the time think. Despite the shock, she and her amazons instantaneously attacked the Romans, much to the latter’s surprise. She slit the throat of the centurion before he could raise his gladius. Sylvina and her companions quickly took back-to-back formation and engaged the Roman soldiers, skillfully avoiding and cutting their spears and puncturing many of them with their swords. Yet, despite their bravery, the fight was uneven. Being on a patrol, none of the amazons had a shield, nor metal armour. In a few minutes of furious fighting, many Romans lay dead or wounded on the ground, but so did all three of Sylvina’s companions. She was alone, rotating swiftly and wielding her sword. One soldier tried to hit her from behind, but she was constantly in motion and killed him. The Romans could have killed her from a distance with spears, as they did with the other three women, but they did not attempt it. Realising that the enemy somehow knew she was the commander and were trying to capture her, Sylvina tried to take her knife to commit suicide, but she lost concentration for a moment and that instance allowed the Romans to overpower her. She felt sudden pain at the back of her head and then lost consciousness.
She heard steps echoing from the outside that stopped behind the cell’s door. It took a few moments for the door to be unlocked and then three men entered the cell. Two of them were holding torches that made Sylvina close her eyes for some moments, as they were blinded by the bright light. In that time, the third man unlocked the chains that held her to the walls, but both her arms and her legs remained chained to one another, preventing any possibility to run. The men led her outside through many corridors and stairs until she was pushed in a spacious dungeon with numerous chains hanging from the ceiling and along the walls. There were bowls with glowing embers, with iron rods stuck within, racks with bloodstains, pliers and thong, as well as numerous whips decorating the walls. There were several men in torturer’s attires and five soldiers. A single man was sitting on a chair placed in front one of the walls, sipping wine from a glass. A fully naked blond slave girl has serving him on her knees, her head bowed down, and her back crisscrossed with whip marks, some old, some fresh.
“So, this must be the famous Sylvina. Let me see, green eyes, unlined slightly elongated face, olive skin, mild lips, neither luscious, nor thin. Black hair with a white lock of hair from the left part of the forehead. I am correct?” the man said, as he put his glass of wine on the tray the slave girl was holding. He was over his fifties, with square shaved face and unpleasant grin. His hands were still muclar.
Sylvina did not respond. “It is very impolite not introduce yourself. Here, my name is Gnaeus Suellius Bassus, commander of the Castrum Rufus garrison and chief of all Cappadocia border troops.”
“Still no response, eh? Isn’t that the lady in question, you cunt?” Rufus turned to the girl next to him. “Yes, she is, master.” the blond immediately answered obediently.
“Fenia?” Sylvina uttered.
“I am sorry, I am so sorry…”
“Shut up, you cunt” Bassus shouted towards the blond girl and slapped her over the face with full force, making her fall to the ground and drop the tray along with the glass of wine. Bassus took her by the hair and yelled “You clumsy fool! You spilled my wine! Twenty lashes, now!” Two men headed towards the unfortunate girl.
“Master, please, have m…” Fenia was slapped again. “For every ‘please’ you say, you’ll get ten more lashes, so you’d better shut up.”
Fenia was dragged and chained between two wood columns in the furthest part of the dungeon. One of the torturers grabbed a long single-tail whip and viciously flogged the screaming girl, as the other one counted the strokes.
Part I:
Sylvina slowly regained consciousness. It took some time for her eyes to adjust to the twilight. She was in a little cell, the only dim light coming from a small barred window high above. There was nothing but plane stone walls aside from the straw scattered in the corner she was lying. Her arms and her legs were chained, restraining her movements. Her head was still dizzy and she could feel the pain pulsating above the scruff of the neck, her body was aching.
Lying in confusion and growing discomfort, Sylvina slowly started piecing her memories together. On the second day of the year’s sixth new moon she and her three companions went on a two-week patrol at the outskirts of the Amazons’ territory. For one year, she had lost twelve of her warriors to the Romans, but Roman activity in area was suspiciously low in the past nine months with very few incursions and skirmishes. Two days into their mission, Sylvina was increasingly uneasy, the forests being often silent. The next days they reached the ravine leading to the next valley but sensing that there could be ambush, she decided to lead her warriors along the perilous climb across the northern ridge. Following a secluded path, the four amazons entered the valley but the Romans were waiting for them there, a whole centuria.
That must not have been possible, but Sylvina did not have the time think. Despite the shock, she and her amazons instantaneously attacked the Romans, much to the latter’s surprise. She slit the throat of the centurion before he could raise his gladius. Sylvina and her companions quickly took back-to-back formation and engaged the Roman soldiers, skillfully avoiding and cutting their spears and puncturing many of them with their swords. Yet, despite their bravery, the fight was uneven. Being on a patrol, none of the amazons had a shield, nor metal armour. In a few minutes of furious fighting, many Romans lay dead or wounded on the ground, but so did all three of Sylvina’s companions. She was alone, rotating swiftly and wielding her sword. One soldier tried to hit her from behind, but she was constantly in motion and killed him. The Romans could have killed her from a distance with spears, as they did with the other three women, but they did not attempt it. Realising that the enemy somehow knew she was the commander and were trying to capture her, Sylvina tried to take her knife to commit suicide, but she lost concentration for a moment and that instance allowed the Romans to overpower her. She felt sudden pain at the back of her head and then lost consciousness.
She heard steps echoing from the outside that stopped behind the cell’s door. It took a few moments for the door to be unlocked and then three men entered the cell. Two of them were holding torches that made Sylvina close her eyes for some moments, as they were blinded by the bright light. In that time, the third man unlocked the chains that held her to the walls, but both her arms and her legs remained chained to one another, preventing any possibility to run. The men led her outside through many corridors and stairs until she was pushed in a spacious dungeon with numerous chains hanging from the ceiling and along the walls. There were bowls with glowing embers, with iron rods stuck within, racks with bloodstains, pliers and thong, as well as numerous whips decorating the walls. There were several men in torturer’s attires and five soldiers. A single man was sitting on a chair placed in front one of the walls, sipping wine from a glass. A fully naked blond slave girl has serving him on her knees, her head bowed down, and her back crisscrossed with whip marks, some old, some fresh.
“So, this must be the famous Sylvina. Let me see, green eyes, unlined slightly elongated face, olive skin, mild lips, neither luscious, nor thin. Black hair with a white lock of hair from the left part of the forehead. I am correct?” the man said, as he put his glass of wine on the tray the slave girl was holding. He was over his fifties, with square shaved face and unpleasant grin. His hands were still muclar.
Sylvina did not respond. “It is very impolite not introduce yourself. Here, my name is Gnaeus Suellius Bassus, commander of the Castrum Rufus garrison and chief of all Cappadocia border troops.”
“Still no response, eh? Isn’t that the lady in question, you cunt?” Rufus turned to the girl next to him. “Yes, she is, master.” the blond immediately answered obediently.
“Fenia?” Sylvina uttered.
“I am sorry, I am so sorry…”
“Shut up, you cunt” Bassus shouted towards the blond girl and slapped her over the face with full force, making her fall to the ground and drop the tray along with the glass of wine. Bassus took her by the hair and yelled “You clumsy fool! You spilled my wine! Twenty lashes, now!” Two men headed towards the unfortunate girl.
“Master, please, have m…” Fenia was slapped again. “For every ‘please’ you say, you’ll get ten more lashes, so you’d better shut up.”
Fenia was dragged and chained between two wood columns in the furthest part of the dungeon. One of the torturers grabbed a long single-tail whip and viciously flogged the screaming girl, as the other one counted the strokes.