Salle May intermittently tortured someone to death. The first time she did it, she woke up a need that would be with her the rest of her life. It became a deep urge, an addiction.
At first, it was only one person every 4-5 months or so. Then a bit more frequently. She would trail someone into the wilderness near her village, come across someone by themselves, or entice someone to follow her. They would become her victim.
After 8-9 years of this, Salle May was being looked at askance. Somehow, some folks on the Appalachian mountain were putting two and two together. Salle May had to do something. She had to get away. But this mountain was the only one she knew.
A fellow from another mountain came visiting. He, too, had a need to torture, although his was more in the consensual rape realm. Salle May’s proclivity was in the realm of delivering horrendous pain. Salle May and Adam recognized each other. They discussed and came to an agreement. They would be each other’s victim. He would be tied down and be the target of her non-mortal pain. She would be tied down and be the target of his manhood.
Salle May left her mountain with her horse and what little she had of her own. She and Adam traveled the trails from one Appalachian mountain to the neighboring one. They built a cabin and cleared land to grow crops.
About once a week, Adam cut willow or other flexible whips, trimmed them, and presented them to his wife. He would allow Salle May to tie him to a log or tree or other object of her choice. Then she whipped her husband. This was no “Gee whiz, did that hurt?” kind of whipping. Not that kind. Instead, it was a vicious whipping that left sharp marks, yanked spontaneous screams and howls from her husband, and sometimes cut into the skin.
Also about once per week, Salle May would present herself and allow her husband to tie her to something immovable and in a position to be raped. Then he would. He would use his wife to sate his desires. Often, he would keep her tied there for hours and once in a while avail himself again.
It was their agreement. Both got what they wanted. Although Salle May did not look forward to the rapes, it was part of the deal. Adam, however, thoroughly cherished the whipping his wife gave him. He was, mostly, a masochist, even though he needed the rape to satisfy his manhood.
One day, Adam and Salle May were in the middle of an intense whipping session when Adam was killed. He was shot by his two oldest siblings, the twins.
Salle May takes off hunting the twins. She intends to make them suffer for killing her husband.
Another sibling of Adam’s, Runt (later named Reign), has her own reasons to torture the twins.
Three young men accosted Reign as she followed Salle May's trail to team up with her. Those three young men became a learning ground for the Salle May and Reign team.
The torturing reveals Reign’s proclivity to torture. It is as present and as much an addiction as is Salle May’s.
The two become self-declared sisters. Overnighting under the same blankets was a natural.
After the three young men had been cut and burned and skinned to death, the new sisters resumed their chase of the twins.
Yes, the twins got what they had coming: long and horrendous torture.
But meanwhile, Reign disclosed something about herself that she hoped Salle May would help her with. Reign needed to be tortured herself to help balance out the tortures she delivered. You’ll read about that, too.
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