Midriél and Evandolas — Part Two of Two (IV)

Midriél and Evandolas

Part Two of Two (and of this the final share):

The Dire-Stones (continued)

Midriél’s muscles were exhausting themselves in a twisting frenzy, the uncontrolled trembling of a woman being lashed to madness. Ever deeper the whip reached into her sundered flesh, ever more laboured the cycle of her breathing became. All worlds had shrunken to the black denseness before her and the red mayhem behind. Thrice more the whip struck with such furore that she could not keep her torso under tension. Air came and went in ragged gasps, the thrill of suffocating addictive. Lightheaded, Midriél allowed the pain to overwhelm her whilst the final lines, curving towards the monolith’s very top, were redrawn in her blood. Lust and suffering, her very essence she gave to the stone, and it accepted her gift.