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Day 15 (Brona's camp)

**WARNING ^… CONTAINS MILD GRAPHIC VIOLENCE**


	A large man walked into the camp, fixing the bloodied and 
battered Link with a gruesome stare.  His face was pockmarked and 
scarred, as were his massive arms, which flexed menacingly as he 
walked, his fists closing and opening.   A group of four men dragged 
a screaming person behind the brute, who was vainly trying to get 
away.  The brute walked into a hut coming back out holding a massive 
hammer in one hand and a few spikes in the other.  He looked at the 
men holding the other captive and called out in a rough voice, "Bring 
him to that tree over there.  Hold his arms tight."

	"Sure thing Lawrence!" called out one of them.

	Lawrence glared at him and he gulped before stammering 
out, "I mean, Mr. Lawrence."

	Mr. Lawrence nodded and walked over to the tree where the 
blubbering man was held.  Lawrence lifted up his chin, "Shut up psi-
boy!  Your whimpering makes me sick."

	"B^�But, I didn't do anythin^�" Lawrence's hand smashed across 
his face, cutting his sentence off.

	"I said shut up!  Stupid psi-freak, your kind shoulda never 
been created.  Now we're going to rectify that mistake.  Hold him 
still boys," the burly man said.

	Lawrence placed a spike in the center of the man's wrist, 
holding it there.  Slowly he drew back the hammer, getting a bead on 
the head of the spike.  In a swift motion, he swung forward, knocking 
the spike through the person's wrist and pinning him to the tree, 
ripping a scream from the innocent.  Lawrence watched the blood ooze 
from the wound and smiled.

	"Yep, you psi-freaks are gonna pay, using yer powers to 
control us regular folk.  You're all unnatural abominations," 
Lawrence preached, laughing as he slammed the other spike through, 
wrenching forth another curdling scream from the prisoner.

	"That's why I work for Brona.  He understands that and lets 
me take care of you psi-scum.  Usually we just burn you at the stake, 
like that big dumb one over there, but today I get to have a little 
fun."

	The man's had already screamed his throat raw, so when 
Lawrence spiked his ankles to the tree, he could only flinch at the 
pain, whimpering quietly, "Good, you've decided to save your voice 
until I get to make you really scream."

	Lawrence kept an eye on him as he went back into the tent, 
returning with a small knife and a whetstone, which he scraped 
against the knife, occasionally holding the blade up to the light to 
see its edge, "Yep, you psi-freaks deserve everything coming to you.  
You guys killed my ma and pa, taking control of their minds and 
making them skewer each other like pigs.  Fortunately he didn't get 
me.  I stabbed him in the eye with this very same knife.  Ever since 
then I've been hunting down bastards like you before you can do any 
damage."

	Lawrence scraped the knife a few more times, "As I understand 
it, your crime is being borne a telepath, able to see what underneath 
people's feelings and then using that to manipulate people.  I'm an 
eye for an eye kinda guy, so the way I see it, I get to do something 
really special to you.  But you probably already know that, don't 
ya," the ugly man looking at the man with a leer.

	The man was indeed bug-eyed as he read Lawrence's surface 
thoughts.  He grinned at the man's abject terror as he moved over to 
him, scraping the knife real slow over the whetstone a couple more 
times, "That's right, freak.  I'm going to make you scream^�"

	Lawrence took his knife and moved up to the shoulder.  He 
pressed the knife gently into the skin, waiting until just a hint of 
blood seeped forth.  With a gentle touch, he cut all the way down 
from the shoulder to the wrist, the man screaming anew.  Then he made 
a similar incision all around the wrist and then around the shoulder

	Lawrence stuck the knife in his belt and stuck his fingers in 
the incision, a sucking an ripping sounds ensuing as he began to peel 
away the layers of outer skin.  The man's screams grew even louder, 
quickly dying away as his voice died with the strain.  The sucking 
sound continued as Lawrence continued to peel back the skin, 
revealing the dark red of muscle, blood now flowing freely down the 
arm, dripping onto the ground below.  The man passed out from the 
pain, and Lawrence frowned in disappointment, "Psi-boy is a wimp.  
Most people last at least till I get done with the second arm.  Mores 
the pity."

	With a brutal movement, Lawrence slashed the neck of the man 
deeply, nearly decapitating him with the skinning knife.  Turning 
over his shoulder, he saw one of the boys emptying his stomach, the 
others looking a little green, "Take care of him boys and when you're 
done, burn the big dumb one like Brona said.  I'm going to go clean 
up."

	The three moved over to the body, grimacing at the sight of 
all the gore.  One of them called back, "Mr. Lawrence, I don't think 
we're going to be able to get him down."

	Lawrence turned around grumbling as he went back , grabbing 
an axe as he walked over to the body.  Taking aim once again, he 
severed the feet and hands from the body, which promptly fell over, 
the head nearly fallen off, being held only by the now visible spinal 
bone, "Now burn him, right next to the big one.  Think you can handle 
that?"

	The three nodded and Lawrence walked off, dropping the axe 
back where he found it, the blood still on its blade.

         Taking the inert form of Link, they attached him to the 
stake as he started to come to, placing the body of the other man on 
a stake next to him.

<Tag, Max!>


Submitted by
Lawrence 
AKA Chris Weeda



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