Curse the Moon
“Just standing to full height had been excruciating, and the unforgiving guards had given him no quarter. They had pulled him from his ‘caja’ that evening, and immediately taunted and jabbed him as he lay writhing on the floor. His fouled clothes stank with his own sweat, caked-on feces, and still-damp urine. The sores in his legs were open, full of pus, and they burned painfully.Two guards yanked him up, with his arms cast over each of their shoulders. Despite his emaciated form, they still str...uggled under dead weight that he was incapable of supporting, and they seemed angered as they dragged him from the Punishment Facility back to Circular 4. There, they opened the door, jostled him roughly inside, and dumped him on the ground. He lay there, unable to move even an inch.Fellow prisoners gathered around, and picked him up gently and carried him to a first-tier cell away from the sun. One brought him water, while another began to cut away his clothes. Barely conscious, he sensed more than felt gentle care as soothing salve was massaged into his wounds.He slept fitfully that night, nightmares of his most recent ordeal joining the pain to invade his consciousness – but he slept, which seemed to him like a new experience.MoreLess
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