Torquemada
“He was taken there first on the day before Holy Week began. The first time he was there they did little to him that was of any importance in terms of what became his existence – the method and meaning of torture. They pricked his skin with needles and they burned the flesh on his back with a hot iron, but it was enough to distort his time sense, and after that he had no idea nor was he ever able truly to recollect how many additional times they took him to torture.
He remembered things but he d...id not really remember the pain. Out of one time he remembered Thomas’ face, cowled, expressionless, lit by a moving flame that passed back and forth like the pendulum of a clock. All the time that he, Alvero, stared at Thomas’ face someone was screaming. It came as an afterthought to Alvero that he himself had been screaming, and that what he heard was the sound of his own screams.
Another time, all the while they were torturing him his gaze was fixed on an image of Christ on the cross which hung upon one wall of the torture room.MoreLess
He remembered things but he d...id not really remember the pain. Out of one time he remembered Thomas’ face, cowled, expressionless, lit by a moving flame that passed back and forth like the pendulum of a clock. All the time that he, Alvero, stared at Thomas’ face someone was screaming. It came as an afterthought to Alvero that he himself had been screaming, and that what he heard was the sound of his own screams.
Another time, all the while they were torturing him his gaze was fixed on an image of Christ on the cross which hung upon one wall of the torture room.MoreLess
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