It was like being cut by a giant paper cut. I let out a scream at the same time as the second lash tore into my breasts and my upper back. A third and...fourth lash followed.She came over and spun my body around. The lashes were now hitting every part of me. I looked down to see a criss cross pattern of red stripes covering my body. I was so traumatised that I hadn't noticed that she had stopped until she knelt in front of me, spread my legs and buckled my ankles to a metal bar. My legs were now. "I've thought of it, but I'd hate to leave Caroline and her children." You ain't helpin' them much." Luke raised his eyebrows and looked over his spectacles at the ruined man sitting across from him, his face showing both regret and defeat.Caroline's father nodded, absorbing the criticism, as two farmers entered and greeted the storekeeper with waves and head nods. Both showed heavy chaws of tobacco in their stubbled cheeks."How about a game?" Mr. French looked up hopefully. "Ten cents to a. " Well," he smiled at her, "at least he won't be bothering us any more. Now we are all alone." Yes, I suppose we are," she said, "all alone." I'm sorry that he died," she said softly, "but we didn't do anything wrong." That's right," he agreed, unable to stop from looking down at her breasts as they quivered and shook eroticly."He brought it on himself," she said softly."Right," he agreed again."Well, fuck him," she said, venom creeping into her voice, "I'm not going to let what he did ruin my. Water and food were placed in the cage from time to time but she resolutely refused to eat, though drinking water from sheer necessity. Of course, after three days thus held she was sitting in her own filth, and so they hosed her down, but at the last possible moment, after the sale had started.It took two attendants to drag her from the cage and on to the sale rostrum where her wrist shackles were quickly attached to a chain which was pulled up until her arms were painfully high above her.