BOUND

Chapter 3

The next few weeks included a series of waking up at 5am, morning jogs for 100 kilometres, hurdles, carrying sacks of sands, swimming through swamps.

There was a building that held all kind of torture equipments on the first floor, a dining hall on the second and a torture chamber on the last floor.

The torture chamber was mainly for offenders but Gwe had never been there before, she didn't even know what it looked like that was until today. She was carrying a sack of sand when she bumped into a guard sending him to the floor with the sack of sand falling on him.

She apologised but he was having none of it, instead he carried her to the torture chamber. She pleaded insistently but he wouldn't listen , he chained her to a pillar and ordered the executioner to have her whipped 200 times. Her heart jumped as the man picked up a whip and cracked it before it came in contact with her cloth covered back. She cried out in pain as the whip came down continuously but at an extremely slow pace.

The executioner waited for the pain to sink in before delivering another one. The whip tore her shirt and came in contact with her bare back, tearing her skin with every stroke.

The executioner paused after the first half and walked to the table in the room. She took in deep breaths as perspiration and tears covered her face, she knew little about the French and how they punished people in the ninties but she never knew those punishments schemes still existed.

She fell to her knees, her arms drawn upwards above her head, this was just 5 months after she had been kidnapped and she didn't know how long she was going to stay here , how the hell was she going to survive, who was going to save her, she seriously wished she could just die here.

The executioner dropped the whip on the table and turned back to stare at her with cold eyes before turning to the table and scanning through the various sizes of whips that laid on the table. He picked one whip up, weighing it before returning it to its position and picking another whip up, he gave a snort of satisfaction before walking back to Gwen, he hurled her up and adjusted the chains to hold her in place before he cracked the long whip and attacked her back with it, in the same slow pace just as before.

An hour later, the executioner removed her from the chains and dragged her to one of the priso n cells and threw her into cell then locked it. She lay there, still as a graveyard, her eyes struggled to remain open, her breath came out in slow puffs and her hair was stuck to her neck with sweat. Her sight became blurry as a pair of boots stepped into her line of view before sge was drawn into oblivion.

Gwen woke up on her bed in her cabin with bandages all over her back, she turned her head and saw sitting beside her with a concerned expression on her face

"What happened?" Gwen asked as Savriti helped her to sit up

"You were injured badly, Major Andrews had you treated and brought back to your cabin"Savriti replied

"Who?"she asked

"Major Andrews"Savriti replied"Are you feeling any better?"she asked

"My back hurts like a bitch"Gwen hissed

"You're lucky the previous injuries are healed but i bet these ones will leave scars"Savriti said

Gwen sighed, she couldn't understand why Major Andrews had helped her, this was the 2nd time since that night

"Why would Major Andrews do this, i mean there's no reason as to why he's taken a liking to me, the other time an ointment for-"Gwen ranted

"What ointment?"Savriti cut her off

"Umm that ointment that i supposedly happened to find"Gwen replied

"Major Andrews gave that to you?"Savriti asked

"Yes"Gwen replied

"Why?"Savriti asked

"No idea"Gwen replied

"I don't know why he's helping you but i don't think we should trust him yet"Savriti said

"Ok"Gwen replied

"Anyways a guard was put in a cell for the merciless treatment of a trainee"Savriti said"Same guard that sent you to the torture chamber"

"Who gave the sentence?"Gwen asked

"Major Andrews"Savriti said

Well she had this bad feeling about Major Andrews but she'ld have to wait to see how things would turn out

Gwen taking a lot of time to heal but that was not an excuse for her non-indulgement in training exercises and ever since the incident with the merciless guard, every other guard had eyes on her.

She was recuperating quickly but the wounds would definitely scars and then her torture began. She was reprimanded for any of her actions that were not approved and the guards took that as an opportunity to scold her as a way to pacify themselves for the anger they felt at the inappropriate maltreatment of their fellow brethren.

She tried enduring it but she couldn't ignore the taunts, she was trying extremely hard to do everything right just avoid their bullyinv but they found a way, they always did, no matter what, she was never free.