This story contains extreme and graphic descriptions of torture and death. Do not read if the subject offends you or if you are squeamish.
The Glass Oven (Le four en verre)
The Pangean torturesses are particularly fond of the glass oven as a means of execution. Although the process essentially involves the victim being “cooked”, the apparatus provides the executioner with several options to achieve this.
The glass oven is quite large, consisting of a glass cylinder two metres high resting on a thick pedestal. Along the inside of the cylinder at half metre increments are a series of metal rings, circular bars attached to the inner surface of the glass. These rings are connected by wires originating at the base of the device.
Projecting upward from the pedestal and rising in the exact centre of the cylinder is a gleaming metal stake, thick and fearsome looking and almost a metre high, connected at its base to a pneumatic mechanism which controls its height.
The top of the cylinder is covered by a flat lid with a hole in its centre. A transparent door is set into the side of the cylinder, allowing access to the rings and stake inside. The cylinder also contains several nozzles set into and protruding through the glass, each connected to a metal pipe leading to a storage tank sitting alongside the cylinder.
The lid of the cylinder contains several small but powerful extractor fans to prevent the glass walls of the cylinder misting over with vapour during the heating process. Formal executions are very popular with spectators in Pangea, so it is important that the audience have a clear view of the effect of the heat on the ill-fated victim’s body throughout the performance.
The condemned woman is dragged, struggling and screaming into the execution chamber and stretched out on a bench where torinas shatter her elbows and kneecaps with a series of hammer blows. Unable to use her arms or legs to raise herself, she is dragged, shrieking in terror, into the cylinder where the torinas position her over the metal stake.
This is where the torturess’ options begin. She can determine whether the woman is impaled vaginally or anally. Her decision may depend on her victim’s physique or the preferences of her audience or, sometimes, on her own mood. In this case, the torturess wishes to demonstrate the effect of heat on fluid in the bladder, so she orders the woman to be anally impaled to allow her patrons a clear view of the woman’s vulva.
The impalement is a brutal process. The howling victim’s clenched sphincter is positioned above the rounded tip of the thick metal post and her body lowered on to the post. While one torina lifts and separates the woman’s thighs, her companion presses on the creature’s shoulders, causing the post to penetrate the sphincter and invade her rectum. Slowly, the tiny sphincter is forced to expand to accommodate the widening girth of the pole and rivulets of blood are soon seen on its gleaming metal surface. The torinas maintain their pressures until over 25 centimetres of the post are imbedded inside the woman’s rectum and colon and her anal bud is brutally distended. Having completed the impalement, the torinas exit the cylinder via the glass door which they close and seal, leaving the doomed wretch moaning and sobbing and struggling helplessly on her ghastly fulcrum, her shattered elbows and knees preventing her from escaping her fate.
Her victim now suitably mounted and secured, the torturess activates the pneumatic mechanism raising the stake, which forces the woman’s body to ascend until her head is sticking through the hole in the lid covering the top of the cylinder. A silicon-rubber collar is closed around her neck just above her shoulders, creating an air-tight seal. The victim’s ravaged body, painfully skewered on the metal spike, is now trapped in the hermitically sealed cylinder. The doomed creature's head emerges from the top of the device, looking as if it is no longer attached to her torso – but, unfortunately for her, it is.
One of the torinas climbs a ladder and injects syringes into veins on either side of the terrified woman's neck, strapping them against her skin with tape. Two bags of transparent fluid are hung from standing hooks and connected to the needles by plastic tubes. The intravenous drips begin to inject a mixture of water, minerals and stimulants to prevent the condemned creature from losing consciousness or dehydrating during her coming ordeal.
The torturess now has another series of options. The glass oven has been constructed to provide the operator with several cooking processes. These include:
Baking – The simplest of the methods involves activating the metal heating elements, steadily increasing the temperature inside the cylinder.
Poaching – Water from the adjacent tank is sprayed from the nozzles set into the cylinder wall onto the victim’s skin and activation of the heating elements causes the water to heat up until it forms steam. The water in the storage tank can also be heated prior to application so that it emerges from the nozzles as steam, which has an immediate effect when it is blasted onto the impaled woman’s body.
Boiling – There are two favoured methods of boiling condemned women. The cylinder can be filled with water so that the victim’s body, apart from her head and neck, is fully immersed. The metal elements in the cylinder wall then gradually heat the water to boiling point. The second method is to fill the cylinder with limited quantities of fluid at a time, heating the water after it enters. This results in the lower parts of the victim’s body being exposed to boiling water first, with the level gradually rising and more and more of her body being immersed and boiled until the cylinder is full.
Deep frying – Instead of water, the storage tank can be filled with oil and a process similar to boiling, as detailed above, can be activated. As with boiling, the victim can either be immersed in oil and deep fried as it is gradually heated, or be subjected to the progressive addition of portions of oil, resulting in her body being slowly fried, bit by bit, from her feet to (eventually) her neck.
Spit roasting – Under this technique, oil is sprayed from the nozzles onto the impaled woman’s skin. The heating elements cause her to slowly roast, with regular sprays of oil basting her body as it heats. The impaling post can also be heated if required, slowly increasing the temperature from the inside while her skin begins to crisp.
Regardless of the method chosen, the executioner can control the duration of her victim’s agony by adjusting the intensity of the heating process. A skillful torturess can manipulate the process to ensure her victim suffers excruciatingly for several hours.
Our torturess is particularly proficient at spit roasting and thoroughly enjoys watching her victims experience the torment, which is unfortunate for the impaled woman because it means her execution will take a very long time.
With a touch of the keyboard, the nozzles burst into life, spraying a mist of oil over the woman’s trembling body. The torturess then activated the heating elements set into the wall of the glass oven, initiating her victim’s hideous process of execution. A large screen provides the spectators with a digital printout of the oven temperature, currently set at 50 degrees Celsius, together with close-up views of the condemned woman’s body, which is already turning pink.
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