leather whip split

f pain escaped her lips as she tumbled to the floor, her

on the floor, her folded

cond or third. She couldn't even count how many times her moth

untlessly against her, on her back

ching her from how long she had been flogging her, she w

-- dar

ripping from how much the beating was, the whip cutting

allic smell filled her nostrils. She refused to be

s as different memories of all the times that her mother

er, her sixth birthday when Isa had almost flog

out of her slowly but Bel

tely great if it all

sn't only Belladonna's heart th

so cruel, her bre

g the whip around her fist. When she s

e nothing wrong, she just took what she deserved.

right thigh, the tent gown she wore doing nothing to minimize the damage. "You e

o one side of Belladonna's thig

ng i

tched it towards Isa who hissed in annoyance. So, he

nd laid the gown there. Isa signalled t

once again, speaking i

ou, she will know that you have forgiven her and she will stop feeling bad. Be happy tha

he stayed curled up.

ding on time, except you want me to strangle you with

the door, tucking the whip away under

ed up on the floor. "If Aniya should shed one more tear on your matter, by Ignas

ing the door lo

er took till she could hear it no more. Then she waited for a few

ith her body swollen, marked with different whip cuts and ach

n was greatly stai

nally, then wal

r body was still reacting

he picked up the go

, long, A-line gown wi

e for Aniya as the bride's

hat Aniya now

*

day was fi

ts, flutes, d

h many people, Lytio bein

had been surprised to see her sister coming down to

any of the Village Head's or Belladonna's fami

knew that something had

t seat of the crowd, a

ut Belladonna did not smile back. She watched how the gown she had put so

he was given. She couldn't even zip it all the way up but she wore it like that. If it wasn't long with re

idn't want to have to go out of her wa

while they held hands, Lytio glanced quickly at her ev

over and it was time f

g her for showing up at the wedding and telling her how

use if you hadn't, you would

anything, she only nod

ont of her. "How do

isn't it?" I

." She rep

ing." Lytio also joined in and

at him. His parents were behind him,

I am very un

e." The Village Head, a tall lean ma

person for not soiling it." The Village Head's wife, an e

s parents we

n, were almost the same height,

is and his father's hair were gold

ther, Lytio h

wondered how someone t

She had gotten used to it overtime but right now, she co

just smelt like a fish and a betrayer. She couldn't tell what a betrayer

felt sick to

melt like

a really good person.

ke, she excu

alized that Lytio had tucked a piece of pa

to see that he had wr