Just a guard
Introduction
A few hundred years ago there was the Academy for the Virgin Martyrs. It was a finishing school for daughters of well-to-do parents and would later become the University for the Virgin Martyrs once the education of women became more acceptable.
Back then the tradition called for the crucifixion (to death) of a student for the end of the spring semester. Being stripped naked and nailed to a cross was either a high honor or a most embarrassing way to die, depending on whether the queen of Spades was drawn and the student with the best grades was crucified or the skeletal form of the joker wild card was pulled and the woman with the lowest grades would suffer a most public naked crucifixion. Either way it was a torturous way to die as you can see here.
Stephanie was mortified when the Joker was drawn. She had neither wanted to go to the Academy for the Virgin Martyrs, had not put any efforts in her studies, nor was she a virgin (though the Academy did not know that fact). She barely passed her semester and with the Joker drawn she would be nailed naked to the cross.
She would hang bare above the quadrangle until she succumbed to the tortures of the cross.
But this is only the introduction to our story…
Introduction
A few hundred years ago there was the Academy for the Virgin Martyrs. It was a finishing school for daughters of well-to-do parents and would later become the University for the Virgin Martyrs once the education of women became more acceptable.
Back then the tradition called for the crucifixion (to death) of a student for the end of the spring semester. Being stripped naked and nailed to a cross was either a high honor or a most embarrassing way to die, depending on whether the queen of Spades was drawn and the student with the best grades was crucified or the skeletal form of the joker wild card was pulled and the woman with the lowest grades would suffer a most public naked crucifixion. Either way it was a torturous way to die as you can see here.
Stephanie was mortified when the Joker was drawn. She had neither wanted to go to the Academy for the Virgin Martyrs, had not put any efforts in her studies, nor was she a virgin (though the Academy did not know that fact). She barely passed her semester and with the Joker drawn she would be nailed naked to the cross.
She would hang bare above the quadrangle until she succumbed to the tortures of the cross.
But this is only the introduction to our story…