Tomorrow night is still a many hours away. Piper is taken to Cruxton Abbey by two IMF security police.
They place her in a rat-infested cell in one of the turrets of the abbey’s wall. Piper is scared and hungry.
Only when she is hanged will either be taken care of.
While preparations for tomorrow’s execution goes on much of Brampton seems to be sleeping there is much hidden activity. In Warden Jollyrei’s bedroom Debbie is being used to service his manly needs.
You may recall Debbie and Piper vowed to be each other’s handmaiden in Cruxton the definition of ‘handmaiden’ only means Debbie is still held in custody until Piper is hanged. You never know if you will need a substitute woman to hang!
In the Cruxton prison women are being hanged for private patrons. The women are lovers, wives, or daughters that need to be eliminated. It is cheaper to have them turned into sow meat than to disown or divorce them plus it puts food in the freezer. The only concession to the women is they are hanged before a small group of prison guards and staff from Julie and Melissa’s cooking team and they are hanged anonymously with a sack over their head.
Don’t think the women were given a swift long drop hanging. That doesn’t flavor their meat like a slow hanging would!
In the early light of dawn the hanging of witches has already begun. Though bars usually cannot open until 11 AM the local police don’t seem to pay attention to the vendor tents that are already selling drinks this early in the morning. Here the first group of witches is being lynched. Within an hour they will be spitted and roasted as food for the day’s festivity.
As one woman has been hanged for an hour her body is taken down and prepared to be spit roasted.
Due to huge crowd when one witch is finished another is brought to take her place in the newly vacated noose.
For most of the people at Market Day it will be an exciting festival… unless perhaps you are one of the women being hanged. There is always a bit of pain required for a good show…
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