what's fate? (open, please come join!)
Jul 29, 2010 16:39:32 GMT -5
Post by heat on Jul 29, 2010 16:39:32 GMT -5
Two days later
I hang my head as the Peacekeepers lead me up the stairs of the District Six public stockade. I follow willingly, glad to take my medicine. I was only lucky that this is not a death sentence. The punishment officer straps me into a set of stocks. I'm facing about twenty of my fellow District Six citizens, staring at them unwillingly as they stare at me. The punisher grabs his whip, and brings it down on my bare back, once, twice, three times. I'm going to get ten lashes and a month-long back ache. This has happened before, so I endure the torturous sting of the whip and watch the crowd. An older man advances from the back of the cluster of sadistic gawkers. It's the old man from the lab! I shoot daggers at him with my eyes. I wonder what he thinks of this punishment. If I had trusted him, would things have turned out differently?
I hang my head as the Peacekeepers lead me up the stairs of the District Six public stockade. I follow willingly, glad to take my medicine. I was only lucky that this is not a death sentence. The punishment officer straps me into a set of stocks. I'm facing about twenty of my fellow District Six citizens, staring at them unwillingly as they stare at me. The punisher grabs his whip, and brings it down on my bare back, once, twice, three times. I'm going to get ten lashes and a month-long back ache. This has happened before, so I endure the torturous sting of the whip and watch the crowd. An older man advances from the back of the cluster of sadistic gawkers. It's the old man from the lab! I shoot daggers at him with my eyes. I wonder what he thinks of this punishment. If I had trusted him, would things have turned out differently?
