Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 5 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 5

... separate yourself from your senses, but every twinge of discomfort, every minor ache or annoyance, drags you back to reality and makes you wonder how much worse it’s going to get.”

He lit a fire and continued to talk, never taking his eyes off the fledgling flame. “You ask yourself what’s at stake, what you lose if you give in to the pain: your friends, your cause, your dream of being remembered as someone who stood on the right side of history. They kept you motivated through mayhem and struggle, but that’s because you had the option to run faster, to fight harder, to end your own life on your own terms. What happens when your only options are to talk or suffer? How hard will you resist for something you’ll never live to see?”

Once the fire was burning healthily, the stranger revealed two knives and stuck them in the radiant heart. “In a moment, I will commence torturing you all for information. Before I start, I will explain the process so you all understand what you’ll experience with complete clarity. Then, and this is important, I’ll remove your gags and give each of you the chance to talk, to save yourselves and your friends. I strongly advise you to use this chance wisely.

Should you spit, curse, or tell me anything I don’t want to hear, then the gags go back in, and you’ll no longer be able to stop the pain. Inevitably, it’ll become too much, and you’ll beg me to stop and spill all your secrets, but to me, it’ll all just sound like muffled screaming, so I ...

... won’t have any reason to stop. I’ll just keep torturing you, even after you give up, until I finally decide to remove the gags.

Now, the method I’ll use is one I devised while helping a friend torture the guy who raped his wife and killed his daughter. He got a big saw to hack the limbs off the criminal, and I almost had to smack him for being so wasteful. Every time you cut off a body part, you’re losing all those precious nerve endings, those pain receptors that can be better utilized to make the victim spill their guts. Why remove someone’s hand when you can break their fingers, yank out of the nails, mince the flesh, and so on?

The process is straightforward: just cut and burn, cut and burn. I will take these knives and start carving off small pieces of your flesh, almost like whittling. The hot blade will cauterize the wounds as they’re inflicted, so you won’t pass out or die from blood loss. When one blade gets cold, I’ll stick it back in the fire and switch to the other. I’ll start at your fingertips, which are one of the body's most sensitive areas. The cuts will be tiny, but even a hair’s breadth will feel like a slash running down to your elbow. Just the tip of one finger, that’s all I need to make you howl in agony.

Cut and burn, cut and burn. I’ll remove the flesh from your fingers, the muscles underneath, and the nerves and tendons, just stripping the bones clean. It’s a slow, tedious process, requiring a whole hour just to do one hand, but that’s the ...