" He gave her a gentle smack on the butt."Your wish is my command, oh Master," she laughed at him.While Marie hurried to get dressed in warm clothing,...Jesse emptied the cache of three fruit jars under the counter next to the sink, all filled with "found" money. He grinned that Marie was not aware of just how many fruit jars filled with cash he had stored away in different places. He slipped on a parka, shoved the wads of cash into the inner pockets of his parka and hurried out to the barn.. The resulting mental ‘blast’ of ferocity had so startled the guards that they’d yelped and leapt back from her as if they’d all been electrocuted… They’d stood staring at her as she cowered in a ball on the floor, and then they’d come at her again, not believing it could have been anything she’d done! So she’d done it again… and they’d jumped back again… their fear growing. She’d fed off of that as she stood up and faced them fearlessly and ‘blasted’ them yet again, even stronger than before…. Well. But when things get too dull for words, don't expect to come running to me for help. You can fend for yourself out there, man. You want this place, you must live in it and live amongst its foolish peasants. You hear me, Dominic? Short of a scruffy hand-drawn Christmas card arriving from it once a year, it's a place that, till you lobbied me to move there, I barely recalled existing. I believe, in fact, that I personally appointed your predecessor when first I came to the Diocese. The. Sitting in the middle of the room were two large wooden wheels coupled together with wooden slats. Imbedded in the slats were pointed metal studs. It stood the height of two people. Next to it stood a glowing brazier with hot irons sticking out from the top of it. The very sight of it made the guards shudder. Melissia was too dazed to take any of her surroundings in.“Seize her up,” commanded Fulvia. With that the two guards placed Melissia’s limp body on the wheel. Her ankles were shackled to.