Saadia - a Skyrim sequel - Part 2

For Kematu it was essential to break Saadia's stubborn arrogance, and so save her from execution. He switched instruments and targets. Choosing a multi-tailed whip with thin lashes, he moved to the traitor's front and began lashing her bare breasts. Saadia began screaming in earnest, and the huge audience roared its approval.

Saadia cursed the crowd, and cursed Kematu. She cursed the Dragonborn for luring her out to the Whiterun stables so she could be captured. But finally she got around to cursing the Thalmor of the Aldmeri Dominion, for talking her into helping them attack her own people. The tone of her screams began to change from rage to distress and sorrow.

Although Saadia was changing her mind about whether stubbornness was a good strategy, Kematu could tell she wasn't quite broken yet. He switched back to the switch (!) and held it between her legs. When Saadia felt it brush her inner thighs, she shouted "Nooo!".
One quick upward flick was all it took. When the traitorous noblewoman felt the sting on her most sensitive place, she screamed and began gabbling: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done it! Please stop!"



Saadia had finally broken and was confessing her treason. Kematu unchained her so she could beg the crowd's pardon properly. On her knees, she asked for mercy. Seeing her so humbled, the crowd laughed and applauded.



Kematu led her away to her lifelong house arrest. Her conditions would be reasonably comfortable, but she wouldn't be trusted out of sight of Hammerfell's guards ever again. And if she ever misbehaved, they would know how to punish her. But Kematu's severe ministrations had saved her from hanging. He felt quite satisfied.

THE END

Real Historical Punishments 31-33

Real Punishments - 1788 Liz Dudgens etc.

31. Women were whipped in Australia's first years as a British penal colony, as one witness described:
"Their hair has been cut off and their head shaved, which they seem to dislike more than any other punishment. At first one or two were flogg’d with a cat-o-nine-tails on the naked breech... They were also whilst under punishment so very abusive that there was necessity for gagging them." (Aussie girls have always had attitude).

Elizabeth Dudgens was one such. She had already escaped from one prison ship and swum ashore, and was whipped on the transportation ship during the crossing, for swearing at the Captain. Then at Sydney Cove, she couldn't keep out of trouble.

Real Punishments - 1793 Anne de Mericourt

32. Anne Josèphe Théroigne de Mericourt joined the Girondist party in the French Revolution, and in June 1792 commanded an attack that re-took the Bastille. The crowds called her the Amazon of Liberty. On May 31, 1793, a group of Jacobin women (a rival faction) seized her, stripped her naked, and whipped her in public - in the gardens of the Tuileries - "in a very embarrassing manner" say accounts of the time.

Anne "went mad through rage and shame, and was afterwards confined for 20 years in the lunatic asylums of Bicêtre and Charenton. Whenever she could escape from the vigilance of her jailers, she would strip herself naked, and endeavour to administer to herself the degrading punishment she had once suffered at the hands of the populace." So clearly it wasn't on the back of her body - too ordinary. Whipping her own breasts would be awkward. That leaves one more possibility. And it was done by other women, who knew what would really hurt!




Real Punishments - 1798 Breeze & Flaherty

33. At the Norfolk Island penal colony, Lieutenant-Governor Robert Ross kept a diary and an extract from it reads: "Punished Elizabeth Breeze and Phoebe Flaherty with 23 each for neglect of duty by suffering the hoggets (piglets?) to get into the garden."

What were they doing in that bleak and lonely place, to get them so distracted?