Cx it just doesn't get any better than this! I think I am about as wet as I have ever been after reading something on the site....I was captured by every word, the scene is captured so effectively by your prose Cx...I think I know what you meant by editing and re-writing...this is so tight, not a wasted word, and it conveys exactly what poor Cliona must be feeling so well! I am in instant sympathy with her...I feel her dejection and pain, and her lovely little sense of triumph for having stepped on the brute's balls...Yay for her! And the detailing about the hemp on the neck, the hob-nailed boot in the bare back, the iron neck ring and chain, and shuffling with head down and tears in her eyes behind the wagon ....so vividly presented...I feel I am one with her, and breathlessly wondering where they could be taking her and what will happen next..Bravo Cx...more please!