Title: The Adventures of the Red Dragon: Episode I The Corsair

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Red Dragon

Episode I The Corsair

 

Chapter 21  The Inquisition

 

Chief Inquisitor Solon Rey licked his lips as he watched the beautiful woman stretched out in front of him.  She was remarkable to look at, almost unbelievably so.  Her fiery red hair was so intense in colour that it almost seemed to fluoresce in the flickering torchlight of the dungeon.  Her green eyes shone with a luminescence resembling that of some feral cat.  High arched eyebrows framed her eyes, which were set above a straight nose and a luscious bow-shaped mouth. 

 

That beautiful face twisted in pain as he tightened the winch of the rack.  That was how the game was played.  Increase the tension enough to make the victim scream and then slacken it off a little.  He could, of course, just keep on increasing the tension until his victim was reduced to a screaming wreck.  He had often done that with particularly troublesome subjects.  But that usually led to permanently crippling injuries, and he wanted to keep this beauty intact.  She would talk eventually.  He had never tortured anyone who did not.  It would just take more time.

 

He raised his eyebrows.  She wasn’t screaming this time.  Last time she had.  She was a tough one, adjusting to the levels of pain he threw at her.  He would wait a minute and see what ensued.  He watched the rise and fall of her marvelous breasts.  She had a tremendous figure, a perfect hourglass silhouette.  Even fully clothed her charms were quite evident. 

 

He had asked that she be given back her clothes.  Quite often he stripped his victims naked before going to work on them, but this one he wanted to undress in a more leisurely manner.  Being slowly undressed while helpless was a most effective method of intimidating a woman or even some men.  She was dressed in a rather exotic manner for a woman, but of course she was an unusual woman with an unusual occupation.  Her ‘costume,’ as he thought of it, consisted of a white blouse and black trousers.  A wide blue sash was wound around her narrow waist, one end of it hanging free.  Her feet were encased in knee-length brown calf-leather boots. 

 

That costume was now somewhat stained with perspiration.  Especially her white blouse, which was dripping with sweat.  Her erect nipples were clearly outlined beneath the damp material.  He wondered at the strength of this woman.  She could hardly be into her early twenties, but he had been “questioning” her for more than two hours without getting a reasonable response.  Perhaps it was time to test her pain threshold.  He turned the crank another notch.

 

“Uiggghh!” Her grunt of pain was just what he wanted.  He would not ease off the tension this time.  Instead he would watch her and see what transpired.  Studying his helpless victim was something he never tired of.  Such beauty was meant to be studied.  He shifted his position so that he could look into the emerald pools that were her eyes.  She stared back at him defiantly.  He saw no fear there, only rage and hate.  He imagined what she would be like, tied down and naked on his bed.  “Soon,” he thought, “soon I will find out.”

 

His eyes shifted down her body.  She was tall.  Probably taller than he was.  He noticed a slight trembling of her limbs as she fought against the pain.  She must have a very high pain threshold.  Most normal women or even men would be screaming continuously by now.  He knew what sort of pain the rack could inflict.  Part of the training of an Inquisitor was being subjected to some of the tools of the trade.  Those that did not scar or permanently cripple.  He had spent a few hours on the rack himself, while his instructor had shown him what it could do.  The pain it caused was truly terrible.  Strapped down and helpless, the victim could only endure while her body was slowly stretched to its limits.  Eventually every joint in the victim’s arms and legs would be pulled apart and the ligaments ripped off the bone. 

 

He had not proceeded that far with the young woman yet.  Such damage to the limbs was irreversible and he wanted this victim undamaged.  Of course, if she proved too intractable, he would forgo his carnal desires and give her the full treatment.  But for now he was prepared to be patient.

 

“Why do you resist, my dear?” he said.  “All I want is a little information.  Give it to me and I promise as a priest of Jalla, the Just, that you will be spared more pain.  You are being foolish.  You have not even told me your name.”

 

The girl said nothing, but her eyes betrayed her.  He had seen a faint flicker of fear deep in those emerald depths.  He was good at that.  Years of experience had enabled him to discern the faintest race of weakness in his victims.  Perhaps just one more turn.

 

“Aaahhh!” Her cry was sharp and not repeated.  But her breathing quickened so much that she was almost panting, and he could hear the rush of air in and out of her lungs.  That was encouraging.  It was the first real sound she had made that betrayed the agony she was in. 

 

He left her for about ten minutes while he continued his patient study of his victim.  Then he moved so that she could see him again.  “I am afraid I may have to leave you like this for a few hours.  Your body will not stand being stretched much more without irreversible damage being done to it.  Perhaps you have changed your mind about speaking to me?”

 

To his surprise, the girl nodded. Or at least he thought it was a nod.  It might just be a twitch brought about by the intense anguish of the rack.  He decided to find out.  Moving to the winch he slacked it off two notches.  That would ease the tension enough to prevent her ligaments being stretched too far, but still provide an intense level of pain.

 

He moved so that she could see him again.  “Let’s start with your name.  Who are you?”

 

“You know I am called the Red Dragon,” she answered through clenched teeth.

 

“I did not ask what you were called,” answered Rey patiently.  “I asked you your name.  Surely you must have one.”

 

“When I was a girl I was called Melissa,” she answered, her lip quivering with pain.  Even slacked off two notches, the rack was still pulling her body apart.

 

“You had no last name?”

 

The girl’s eyes closed briefly as she fought the pain.  Her breathing slowed as she regained partial control of body.  “My father was Lusan Noble.  He was an armorer.  His weapons and armor were beyond compare.”

 

“He lived here, in Slandor?”

 

“N…no…we were citizens of Tremara.  It…it is not far from here.  Near the sea.”  The girl’s words were bitten off between spasms of pain.

 

Rey was not an unnecessarily cruel man.  The girl was talking.  He moved to the winch and slackened it off another two notches.  His victim gave an audible sigh of relief.  There was still considerable tension on her arms and legs, but the level of pain was reduced from excruciating to merely painful.  “Tell me of your life and how your came to be here.  Omit nothing.”

 

Rey was using another technique he had found useful.  The trick was to get his victims talking.  It did not matter what they talked about as long as they answered the questions he asked.  He avoided getting right to the point, as that often resulted in resistance.  So he asked innocent questions about home and family first.  He usually found that once he victims began to cooperate they would tell him the more important details that he really wanted to know.  And so he settled down to hear the girl’s life history.

 

With the tension on her arms eased, the girl spoke without hesitation.  She was still in pain, but it was bearable.  The promise of eventually being freed from all pain usually helped hurry the story along. 

 

“It is a long story,” she said.  “And I am in great pain.  Could you not se your way clear to easing the rack a bit more?”

 

“Begin your story,” Rey answered, “and I will see if what you tell me pleases me enough to make me want to do that.”  The girl made a soft sound that resembled a whimper and then she began to speak. 

 

Melissa told most of her story.  It took her quite a long time to recount all of her adventures, and she left out many of the details that were personal to her and others that she wanted to keep secret.  By the time she had finished Rey had a fairly good idea of her background.  During her narration he had eased off the rack a bit more.  There was still tension being applied to her body but it was bearable. 

 

She was glad that the Duke had seen fit to give her some clothing.  She had no idea why he did it, but she was pleased that he had.  Being stretched out naked would have been much worse.  Of course, the inquisitor could always strip her.  She expected that sooner or later he would.  The way he looked at her when she was on the rack left little doubt in her mind about his eventual intentions. 

 

But he had not raped her yet.  No one had so much as laid a hand on her sexually for over a week.  It seemed that the Duke had lost interest in that sort of torment, or perhaps he just wanted to see what Rey could achieve.  Rey seemed a strange man to be the Duke’s Inquisitor.  He was quite tall, but very thin and gangly with angular features and a scraggly beard that he grew only on his chin.  The rest of his face was clean-shaven.  His eyes were large and watery, being a sort of pale blue and his mouth was large and thin lipped like that of a frog.  Altogether he did not look like the most feared man in all of Dakmora after the Duke himself. 

 

But he certainly knew his trade.  Her sessions on the rack were incredibly painful.  She had thought that nothing could compare to the pain of the devil’s whip.  He had shown her that she was wrong.  He had her screaming uncontrollably after only a couple of hours on the rack.  She had not believed that a mere machine could inflict so much pain.  But Rey was a master in its use.  He played the rack the way a skilled musician plays his instrument.  She had entered the dungeon prepared to die rather than reveal a single thing about herself.  Now she had told him almost everything.  Everything that is except what she was sure Rey wanted to know, but she was sure that eventually he would get around to that subject.

 

She breathed a sigh of relief as Rey slacked off the rack.  “That is enough for today my dear.  Tomorrow we will start where we left off.” 

 

Two guards appeared carrying the heavy chains that she always wore when she was moved from the torture chamber to her cell and from her cell to the torture chamber.  “Tomorrow,” she thought.  Rey always left her with that thought.  Obviously he hoped that it would work on her mind until he started on her again.  She set her jaw.  Well it would not work.  She had given him nothing of value today; she would give him nothing of value tomorrow.

 

 

“Aaaagghhh!” Melissa’s scream was shrill as the sharp hook pierced her breast.  Rey had changed his approach this day.  Instead of being taken to the rack, Melissa had been locked into a sort of pillory.  Her feet were clamped behind her between two wooden boards that were hinged so that they could be opened and closed.  This forced her into a kneeling position on the floor of the torture chamber.  Her hands had been forced into a similar contraption that was bolted to the first and so also located behind her.  This resulted in her body being pitched forward at about an 80 degree angle.  The pain in her arms and shoulders was enough to make her scream on its own.  Only her Dragon Warrior training enabled her to tolerate it without shrieking in agony. 

 

But the reverse pillory was only the first step.  For the first time Rey had removed part of her clothing.   He had apologized as he did so.  “I am sorry, Melissa, my dear, but the Duke grows impatient.  I would prefer to use my methods.  They are slow but sure.  The Duke, however, does not share my passion for the art of torture.  He threatened to let someone else do my work, and I could not have that, and so I am forced to use other, more brutal techniques.”

 

As he had spoken, Rey had unlaced the ties on Melissa’s white blouse, allowing her perfect pink-tipped breasts to fall free.  His eyes followed the flow of the dragon tattoo.  “Incredible,” he said.  “It almost seems alive.”  He had of course, seen the tattoo at Melissa’s scourging.  Hidden in the crowd, he had tried to size up his next victim.  He had been impressed not only with Melissa’s fortitude, but also her great beauty and the tattoo as well.

 

”His eyes strayed to her perfect globular breasts.  Even at the awkward angle of her body they easily held their shape against the pull of gravity.  As she shifted uncomfortably they swayed most invitingly just in front of Rey’s eyes.  He had been unable to resist the temptation, and for a few minutes he had amused himself by sucking and fondling the grapefruit sized hemispheres.  Melissa found the Inquisitor’s touch disgusting, but there was little she could do about it except endure, while he suckled at her like a piglet at sow’s teat. 

 

Then he had produced the hooks.  “I do not want to use these, Melissa.  They will cause great pain and damage your perfect breasts most severely.  Just answer one question and I can put them away.  What did you do with the treasure you looted from the Duke?”

 

Melissa had long expected the question.  She had no intention of answering it.  If she did so she could only expect death as a reward.  The Duke would no longer have any reason to keep her alive and would carry out his promise of public torture and execution.  Also, it was the only thing she had done right.  She had failed in every other way, but she still had the Duke’s silver.  She would die before she told Rey where it was. 

 

And so she had said nothing.  And Rey had seized her left breast and forced the hook through the soft tissue, just blow her areola.  It was as he had promised, very painful.  As her first scream died away, and Melissa fought back a second, Rey produced a second hook.  “Your body is perfection, Melissa,” he said, holding the second hook before her eyes.  “It would be shameful to mutilate it further.  Tell me what I have asked and you will be spared this torment.”

 

As before, Melissa did not answer.  Rey licked his lips again and squeezing the soft flesh between his fingers, he inserted the other hook.  Once more Melissa’s scream of pain echoed through the large stone-walled room. 

 

“Remember,” said Rey, “I tried to spare you this pain.”  There was an eyelet at the end of each hook.  Reaching over her head he brought down a length of string with another hook attached to it and attached it to the hook in her left breast.  Then he slowly released it. 

 

“Unnggghhh!” Melissa grunted in pain as her breast was tugged upward.  The string he had attached to the hook ran through a small pulley that hung from the ceiling.  Secured to the other end of the string was a small weight.  It was not enough to tear the flesh of her breast, but it applied painful tension, lifting her nipple toward the ceiling.  Rey pulled down a second hook and applied tension to her right breast in the same way.  Melissa fought back tears of pain.  The awkward position of her body was pain enough.  The piercing and weighting of her breasts added to the suffering.  Sweat  ran down her body in rivulets, and her chest heaved from the exertion of fighting against the terrible agony her body was being subjected to.  But Rey was not finished with her yet.

 

He ran his fingers between the hollow of her breasts and then swept it down over her flat belly to the curve of her abdomen.  Melissa had not been given a belt and her trousers were held in place only by her hips and a thin lace tie.  Rey pulled the tie loose and moved his hand toward her nether region.

 

The touch of his fingers as they cupped her vulva was almost more than she could bear.  She longed to ask him to stop, knowing full well that the demented Inquisitor would delight in hearing her beg for mercy.  He would know that he was close to his goal of breaking her.  Then she would tell him everything, from the whereabouts of the treasure to the hiding place of her friends and how to best capture them.  Then the Duke would have it all.  He would have her tortured to death, but not before she was forced to witness the degradation and torture of her companions.  The thought of seeing Che Sha and the two Silvani girls stripped and raped before her eyes gave her strength to carry on.  She closed her eyes and tried to shut out the anguish of her body and the probing hands of Solon Rey.

 

Rey spent a long time with his hands in Melissa’s pants.  By the time he was finished he was quite familiar with her central anatomy.  She was a delight to explore.  He had never encountered a woman with such firm buttocks, or a more divine house of love.  He had expected her to be as loose as a ten penny whore after the number of times she had been raped, but she was almost virgin tight.  He wondered how she managed that.  It was almost as if there was something mystical about her. 

 

Rey was no more superstitious than any other man, but he was becoming quite intrigued with this mysterious woman with the wondrous dragon tattoo.  He studied the image of the beast that covered a good third of the skin on her torso.  It was so well drawn that it almost seemed real, especially when the muscles beneath the Red Dragon’s skin moved as they did now.  The woman was in a good deal of pain, and she moved involuntarily.  When she moved the dragon moved as well.  Sometimes it was hard to determine whether or not it was the woman who was moving or whether the dragon moved by itself.  The glaze of sweat that covered her body shimmered in the torchlight of the torture chamber. 

 

Rey shook his head.  The dragon was almost hypnotic.  He still had work to do.  To his intense annoyance the woman was still resisting.  He had no misgivings about the pain she must have been in.  Why did she not surrender?  Perhaps she needed a little push to break her.  From the way her body was trembling she must be very close. 

 

“You are very strong, my dear,” he crooned into Melissa’s ear.  “But you have lost.  Give in.  Free yourself from the pain.  Do not force me to do make matters worse.”

 

Melissa’s only response was to slow her breathing.  The pain had her panting like an overheated dog.  But she must not lose control.  She reached within herself and called on her training, trying to remember what her master, Chang Jao, had taught her.  Slowly she relaxed willing her body to ignore the pain.

 

Rey shook his head again.  “So stubborn,” he said testily.  He was tiring of the game he was playing with this woman.  He strolled almost lazily to his bench.  He stood there for a few seconds surveying the assorted instruments of torture.  The clamps?  No, her breasts were already pierced.  Pincers to pull her tongue out of her mouth and an iron spike to pierce it?  No she would be unable to respond.  The whip?  She was in a rather awkward position for a proper flogging.  Ah!  There was the very thing.  The pear.  Yes, she was wonderfully tight.  The pear would deliver maximum pain. 

 

He picked up the metal object and carried it back to Melissa.  He held it in front of her eyes.  “Do you know what this is my dear?  No, I see by your eyes that you do not.  Let me show you how it works.”  Holding it in his right hand he turned a screw on the device with his left hand.

 

Melissa tried not to show the added fear she felt.  The object Rey was holding in front of her was about eight inches long, made of metal, and shaped like a segmented pear.  In the small end of the pear was a metal screw with a handle.  As Rey turned the handle the pear slowly began to expand.  “A simple mechanism isn’t it, Melissa?  I just turn the screw and it expands.  I think you can imagine where I will place it.  But there is no need for me to use such an intrusive device.  All you have to do is tell me where you hid your treasure and I can put it back on the shelf.”

 

Melissa turned her gaze on the Inquisitor.  A great calmness settled over her.  “I will die first,” she said.  She knew as she said it that her words were likely to be prophetic.  She had never felt so helpless before.  In a way she almost welcomed death.  That way she could be sure that she would not betray her friends. 

 

“Have it your way,” Rey replied.  “Just remember when you are screaming that I made you a fair offer.”

 

Melissa almost whimpered as she felt Rey pulling down her trousers.  He had to use a knife to slit them so that they would slide down more easily.  As the cold air of the large room swirled around her nether region she shivered.  But it was not from the cold, but rather what Rey was doing to her.

 

His fingers parted her vulva.  Then she felt cold metal against her labia as Rey pushed the pear inside her.  Even at its smallest diameter he had to exert consideration pressure to force the device home.  Melissa gritted her teeth against the added pain.  Her vaginal canal was unlubricated and even the smooth metal of the pear rasped against her soft tissue.  But Rey continued to work it into her. 

 

The pear was almost two inches in diameter, and it took Rey some time to insert it all the way.  But finally he was finished.  Melissa trembled at what was to come.  Already the presence of the metal dildo was painful.  And then Rey began to turn the screw.

 

Melissa gasped as she felt the metal push tightly against the inner recesses of her body.  Slowly the pressure increased, and with it the pain and discomfort.  In spite of her best efforts, she could not stop her breathing from becoming labored.  And still the pear expanded.  Melissa fought back a scream.  Blood trickled from the torn tissue of her vagina.  She tried to move her knees apart to relieve the pressure, but the pillory restrained such movement. 

 

“Sera help me,” she thought.  A low moan escaped her lips.  It felt as if Rey was driving a post into her, instead of simply turning a screw. 

 

“There, my dear,” taunted the Inquisitor, “that is about halfway.  Have you reconsidered your decision to die?”

 

Melissa fought for control.  Her entire body was shaking with the agony of the multiple tortures.  She did not trust herself to answer for fear of screaming in pain. 

 

“I’ll assume your silence means no,” said Rey.  He turned the screw again.  Melissa screamed.  But this time Rey ignored her and continued turning the screw.  Melissa’s mouth opened to scream again, but with a supreme effort, she stifled her shriek.  But she did not last long.  Rey continued expanding the pear.  Melissa felt as if she was being torn apart.  She screamed again.  A long wailing screech of pure despair. 

 

Rey stepped away from her.  Melissa had lost control.  She jerked her body spasmodically; blood streaming for her torn breasts and ravaged vagina and all the time her heart-wrenching cries bounced off the walls of the dungeon. 

 

Rey said nothing.  He had seen it all before, but a small smile pulled at the corners of his mouth.  He let Melissa scream herself hoarse and waited until her convulsing body went limp.  Then he went to her.  Slowly he released the tension on the pear, letting it fall from her now overextended vagina.  A low gurgling moan escaped Melissa’s lips as the hideous device was withdrawn.  The sudden release from pain sent a sensation through her loins that almost felt pleasurable, although everywhere else she was racked with pain. 

 

“Now my dear,” said Rey, “the location of the treasure.  Where is it buried?”

 

“I can’t… tell you…where…,” Melissa gasped.  “Can’t tell you where…”

 

Rey smiled.  “Yes you can my dear, yes you can.  If you do I will make the pain go away.  You would like that, wouldn’t you?”

 

Melissa nodded.  She had been broken, but did not yet realize it.  The Inquisitor’s words seemed very reasonable.  She would do what he wanted. 

 

She whimpered as he withdrew the hooks from her breasts.  And she cried out when he replaced the hooks with two large gold rings.  The pain as he inserted the rings into the wounds was almost as great as the original injury.  After Rey had placed the rings, the two guards held her so that the locks of the pillory could be released and her arms and legs freed.  As the blood flowed back into her cramped muscles pain came with it, and she shook with agony as her dead limbs returned to life.   

 

They carried her to the rack.  Melissa only knew that she was being allowed to lie down for the first time in hours.  She did not even complain when she was turned face down and the leather cuffs were fastened to her wrists and ankles.  Rey spent a few minutes cleaning her up.  He lifted her head and gave her a drink of a bitter tasting stuff that would help stop her bleeding.  Otherwise, as his experience had taught him, she would bleed for days where the pear had ravaged her. 

 

Now she was ready.  This time she would answer his questions.  He turned the windlass on the rack, tightening the ropes holding Melissa’s arms and legs. 

 

“No!”  Melissa’s protest was weak but audible.  “Please…no!” 

 

Rey tightened the ropes.  Melissa gave an almost inaudible moan as her body was stretched out.  Rey clicked the windlass two more times. 

 

“Mmmmm!”  She was too weak to scream.  Rey nodded.  The tension was just right.

 

“Now, my dear you must answer my questions.  If you do the pain will go away, but if you do not, it will get worse.  Do you understand?”

 

Melissa did not answer.  Rey gave the windlass another click.

 

“Ahhh! Yes…” Melissa gasped, “I understand.”

 

“Good now tell me where you buried the treasure.”

 

Tears rolled down Melissa’s cheeks.  Her breathing was tortured, as if she had run a great distance.  “Nowhere,” she groaned.  “It’s buried nowhere.” 

 

Click!  Rey turned the windlass another notch.  “Ahhh!”  From somewhere Melissa found the strength to scream. 

 

“That is not the answer, Melissa.  Tell me where it is buried.” 

 

“I cannot.  There is… no buried treasure.”

 

Rey place his hand in the small of her back.  “So smooth,” he thought, “so soft.”  He had waited long enough.  He had made progress today.  Tomorrow she would tell him everything.

 

He slacked off the ropes on her wrists.  Melissa gave a sigh of relief as the tension eased.  Several more turns and the ropes holding her wrists were completely slack.  Moving to the end of the rack he pulled her halfway off so that she lay bent over the rack with her feet touching the floor.  The ropes still attached to her wrists kept her from falling to the floor.  He moved closer to her and loosened the ties on his trousers.  He was already erect and the Red Dragon’s backside was completely vulnerable.

 

He placed his hands on her muscular buttocks and spread her cheeks.  At the last second the redhead realized what he was up to and came out of her stupor.  “Oh no!” she moaned.  “Don’t!  Please don’t!”

 

Rey found her tight anus.  It was a battle, but he forced his way in.  The redhead writhed feebly; too weak to fight back or even tighten her sphincter.  But she could still scream.  “Ahhh!”  Her voice was so hoarse that it came out like the caw of a sick crow.  She kicked her legs weakly and then screamed again as Rey pushed into her. 

 

“Should have taken you earlier,” he muttered, “when you had more fight.”  He gripped her finely curved hips and drove forward with all of his strength.  The thrust took him deep with the moaning woman, but she had nothing left.  He raped her for half an hour before he ejaculated.  But he was not satisfied.  “I’ll have you again,” he said “and next time the way a man takes a woman.”

 

 

Melissa whimpered as the rawhide thong tightened around her left breast.  Her right demiglobe was already compressed in the same way.  She had recovered from her last session with Rey.  He had left her alone for a week while the Duke’s doctor ministered to her.  Somehow he had convinced the Duke that he needed time and that she needed to be in perfect health in order to be tortured properly.  For awhile she thought that she was simply going to be taken out and given the public execution that the Duke had promised the people of Dakmora. 

 

When the guards had come for her she had already prepared herself for her death.  It was with a strange mixture of relief and fear that she saw Rey.  So she was not going to be executed, but she was going to be tortured.  She looked the gangly Inquisitor in the eye, refusing to turn her gaze away from his disconcerting watery gaze. 

 

But he did not take her right away.  Rey ordered her to strip first.  Melissa considered resisting, but realized that Rey would probably get more enjoyment out of forcing her to strip than just watching her.  So she removed the simple sackcloth robe that she had been given while recovering from her injuries.  She was almost healed.  Her vagina was still very sore, and the double puncture wounds made by the rings in each breast still ached, but the Duke’s personal physician was a man possessed of great skill.  Some even claimed that he had made a pact with Mysara, goddess of healing.  Whatever the source of his skill, Melissa had healed rapidly enough that Rey considered her fit for another session.

 

She was heavily laden with chains.  It was obvious that her reputation was still respected in spite of the fact that she had made no effort to escape.  Not that she had been given much chance, as she had never worn less than fifty pounds of iron, except when she was chained to the rack or some other fiendish torture device.  She wondered what delights Rey had to show her this day.

 

This time it was the wheel, which was merely a variation on Rey’s favourite instrument of torture, the rack.  With quick efficiency, Rey removed the shackles she wore while transferring her to the wheel. 

 

The wheel was actually more like a large revolving drum.  It stood almost two heads taller than Melissa and was about an arrow shaft wide.  Along each rim were a number of eyebolts to which chains or ropes could be secured.  Melissa’s arms were stretched over her head and secured to eyebolts on either side of the rim.  Then the wheel was rotated slightly so that she was lifted about a foot off the ground.  The chains holding her ankles were chained to large rings in the stone floor.  All Rey had to do the cause her excruciating pain was to rotate the wheel a few degrees.

 

Rey stood in front of the helpless redhead.  He still marveled at her incredible beauty.  There was indeed something almost magical about her.  How else could she have healed so quickly?  The Duke’s personal physician was highly skilled, but he had never seen anyone recover the way that she had.  And then there was the dragon tattoo.  The more he looked at it, the more it intrigued him.  It really did seem like a living creature.  Whoever had created it had been a true master of his art.  Each scale was minutely inscribed and coloured with carefully chosen shades of red ink.  It must have been excruciatingly painful for the girl to have had such detail carved into her satin skin.  Small wonder that she endured pain so well. 

 

His brow furrowed.  Was it is imagination or had the tattoo changed?  It seemed that the angle of its head had changed a little.  He shook his head.  That was impossible.  Tattoos did not change.  No doubt it was a trick of the light or a slight change in the curvature of the girl’s breasts.  He licked his lips.  It seemed he did that every time her gazed as her naked bosom.  And why not.  Breasts like those cried out to be suckled. 

 

He moved between her legs.  Her body was tightly stretched and he knew that she must be in considerable discomfort.  But she showed little sign of the pain she was enduring.  He moved the outside of his hands up her inner thighs.  Her flesh was warm and yielding, and yet strong and firm.  Reaching the point where her legs came together, he moved his right hand over her vulva.  Slowly he parted her soft vaginal petals and inserted his middle finger into her.  He felt the redhead’s body tense and there was a slight interruption in her breathing as he touched her.  He gave a little grunt of satisfaction.  She was still alarmed by the touch of a man.  Strange in one who had been raped so often.  By now she should have been used to it. 

 

He pushed his finger in as far as it would go.  The Red Dragon’s warm flesh closed around his intruding digit like a velvet vise.  So tight, and yet he had loosened her until she resembled a cheap whore only a few days ago.  He gazed at the head of the dragon again.  Its ruby-like eyes glared back at him with its fixed unblinking stare.  He moved his hands to his waistband and undid the ties that held up his trousers.  He would take her like a woman now, as he had promised himself.

 

Melissa tried to remain impassive as she was raped.  Rey was not physically impressive, but rape was something she never got used to, no matter how many times it happened.  Certainly she learned to handle the violence of the act better the more times it was done to her, but she never got over the humiliation or degradation of being forced to submit to the sexual act.  She found herself wondering if other women felt the same way.  Probably they did.  And did that apply to whores also?  How many of them had chosen their trade freely?  Was being a whore like being raped for money? 

 

Her thoughts returned to Rye’s vigorous humping.  The lanky Inquisitor was grunting like a pig as he thrust into her.  “What was better,” Melissa wondered, “pretending that nothing was happening to her, or acknowledging it and acting as if the man’s effort was too insignificant to matter?” 

 

“So,” bellowed a voice, “this is why you delay your questioning of the dragon bitch?  I suspected as much.”

 

Rey almost wet himself as Duke Roland strode into the room.  His engorged phallus deflated like a burst balloon.  “Your excellency,” he gabbled, hastily pulling up his tight-fitting trousers.  Clumsily he attempted a hurried bow and almost fell over.  His pale face alternately coloured and returned to its normal pallor.

 

“I have been waiting two weeks for this redheaded bitch to speak, and you convinced me to wait longer, insisting that your methods would get the best results.  So far as I can see they might get her with child, but I doubt that you will make her talk.  She has already seen more cocks than most hens.”

 

“My lord, I did not expect you, but please be assured that my methods are in your interest.  I have determined through my torture that the Red Dragon fears rape more than she does the rack.  The rack is only pain.  Rape is the ultimate humiliation.”

 

The Duke did not seem convinced.  “I had expected better results than this,” he said.  He moved close to the helpless redhead and placed a hand on her flat belly.   “She seems hardly to have been touched.”  He lifted one of the rings piercing Melissa’s breasts.  “Except for these ornaments, what have you done?  What have you learned?”

 

Rey spluttered out a few of the facts that Melissa had divulged to him.  The Duke turned a dark glance on his Inquisitor.  “I needed to know nothing of he adventures abroad,” he roared.  “Where is the treasure?”

 

Rey went silent, his pale features and his wide mouth making him look like some strange albino frog.  The Duke lowered his voice.  “Rey, you have never failed me before.  But I think that this dragon bitch may have bewitched you.  I think today I will have a hand in her torture.”  He looked at the rawhide thongs that were slowly distorting Melissa’s breasts.  “I see that you have at least gotten started.  Let’s see if I can’t speed things up.”

 

The Duke strode to a bucket a few feet away.  Stooping he held up two more lengths of rawhide.  Let’s see if stretching those tits will get any kind of reaction from her.”  Deftly he tied each of the two thongs to the rings in Melissa‘s breast and then extending them he tied each one to a ring in one of the ceiling beams. 

 

Melissa grunted in pain as her breasts were pulled into sharp points.  Already the slowly shrinking rawhide bands that Rey had tied around her breasts were causing her considerable pain.  “There,” said the Duke, leering at Melissa in satisfaction.  “That should make a difference.  Now we just let the rawhide do its work, but perhaps a little entertainment while we wait.”

 

The Duke unbuckled his belt and set aside his sword.  Then he unlaced the front of his trousers.  “You remember this, I’m sure,” he said to Melissa.  “It is eager to reacquaint itself with that tight honey pot of yours.  And thanks to my Inquisitor it has already been well lubricated for me.”

 

Melissa fought back tears as the Duke entered her.  To be ravished again by the villainous nobleman was humiliating in the extreme, and the anguished expression on her face revealed the shame she felt. 

 

Duke Roland grinned into the face of his victim as he tightened his grip on Melissa’s backside.  “Don’t pretend you don’t like this, you little bitch,” he taunted.  “You’ve got a real man in you now.  One that knows what a woman wants.”

 

“You are filthy scum,” Melissa gasped.  “The only way you can get a woman is to take one by force.” 

 

“Bitch!” exclaimed the Duke, thrusting hard into her.  “Bitch, I’ll have you begging for this before I’m through.”  He hammered into her as hard as he could, trying to inflict maximum pain.  To his consternation, Melissa showed none of the fear and anguish she had when he had first captured and raped her. 

 

“Uuunnggh!” Melissa grunted.  The bands around her breasts were very tight now, causing her breasts to bulge out like inflated bladders.  The pain was intense, and Duke Roland was adding to it through his savage thrusts.  Melissa’s hair flew wildly in all directions as he drove in and out of her.  Soon she was groaning as her beautiful breasts were both squeezed and stretched by the rawhide tethers the Duke had added.  With the Duke shaking her like a rag doll she feared that the rings piercing her breasts would rip out of her tender flesh. 

 

“Aaahhh!  Aaahh!” cried the Duke as he climaxed.  Breathing heavily, he staggered away from the moaning form of the woman he had just violated.  “That’s how it’s done, Rey!  The way a real man does it!  He turned to the angular Inquisitor.  “I’ll give you two days.  Either she tells where the treasure is or I’ll deal with her myself.  I’d do it anyway if I didn’t have so much else to attend to.”  With that the Duke of Dakmora turned on his heel and left the dungeon. 

 

Rey had been standing sulkily in one corner of the dungeon.  “Two days?  He gives me just two days?  The man has no soul, no sense of artistry.  I’ll give him his two days, but there won’t be much left for him to execute.”  He moved over to Melissa and with an intense fury, he cut the rawhide tethers stretching her breasts as well as removing the two compression bands. 

 

“Now,” he growled.  “That’s enough games.  You will tell me what I want to know or I will destroy you!”  Pulling a lever, he rotated the wheel.  Melissa screamed.


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