Alice and Taria talk about their pasts

Sara was taken into the mines. She saw Taria still tied to the whipping post. Her back was a mess.

"Take her down and string up the new girl" said the Overseer, "its time for her first lesson in slavery"

Taria, barely conscious, was taken from the whipping post and Sara's wrists were chained to it.

CRACK!

Sara cried out in pain.

CRACK!

Sara sobbed from the pain.

CRACK!

After a few whiplashes, the overseer noticed that Sara was moaning in pleasure. She put her fingers in Sara's vagina to find her pussy was wet.

"Are you getting off on this?"

"No, I swear" said Sara, "I only whipped myself for punishment. It has nothing to do with me being into this stuff"

"Well, even if you're a masochist, there's a limit to the amount of pain one can handle"

CRACK!

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Taria was dragged into a cell that Alice and Farsel were being held in.

"You like her so much, princess, you take care of her"

"I'll need medical supplies" said Alice.

The guards brought whatever Alice said she needed to treat Taria's wounds. Taria lay **** on her stomach while Alice treated her back.

"Where did a princess learn how to treat whip injuries?" asked Farsel.

"When I was little, I witnessed some poor elf girl, the same age that I was, getting whipped" said Alice, "I wasn't supposed to be there. I didn't understand that she was a ****. But I saw my mother demanding the **** be whipped harder. I couldn't stand the sight or the screams so I cried in terror. Seeing mother act so cruelly frightened me so much I..."

"What did you do? Did you kill her?" asked Farsel.

"What? No! Are you crazy?" asked Alice, "I... peed myself. Then my mother saw me standing there. I thought she was going to whip me as well so I ran all the way up to the tallest tower, barricading the room and stayed there crying"

"So did she whip you?"

"First you think I'd kill my own mother and now you think she'd **** me like that! What is wrong with you?" asked Alice, "she just spoke to me through the door. She told me that the elf was being punished for stealing some sweets. But it was really me that stole them. I opened the door and confessed it to my mother"

Alice sobbed.

"The girl was tortured because of me. It was funny that just a few hours before I was afraid of getting whipped but now I wanted it. It wasn't fair the elf had to suffer for something I did. I begged my mother to have me whipped. She refused, she told me what she did to the elf was different because was a ****, less than human. So I ran back to the whipping post and told the guard that my mother had ordered him to whip me"

"Is there something mentally wrong with you?" asked Farsel, "the fact someone else got punished, means you got away with it. Why would you even confess? When my mother did the same thing to a human **** for something I did, I just laughed at her because she was a lowly human"

"You are a horrible person" said Alice.

"Yeah, but at least I didn't get whipped" said Farsel, "I bet you regretted it once the guy started swinging that-"

"Actually, he asked my mother if she had indeed ordered it, he wasn't stupid enough to flog a princess without making sure the king or queen really did give him orders to do so" said Alice, "my mother did punish me but nowhere near as harsh as what she did to the elf. This actually made me feel worse. I talked to the elf, told her I was sorry and promised never to do anything that would get her in trouble"

"You apologised to a ****?" asked Farsel.

"Yes, she was hurt because of me, why is this so hard for you to understand?" said Alice, "at first she took my apology for mockery. Apparently, people would accuse the elf slaves of things they didn't do just so they could have them whipped for fun. I saw her wounds were still bleeding and I wanted too help. So I read up on books about medicine and healing. I even treated the girl's whip injuries. Once she realised I was sincerely sorry for what I did, we became friends but my mother didn't approve. She had the girl taken away and I never saw her since"

"You are a very strange person" said Farsel, "after the human **** got whipped, I just spat on her like a normal person"

"Since then, I've studied medicine and used it to treat the slaves after they were flogged. My parents don't understand why I care for the wellbeing of slaves" said Alice, "but once I'm queen, I'm ending slavery in my kingdom"

"What makes you think you'll be queen?" asked Farsel, "a radical idea like ending slavery. Even assuming you're an only child, your parents are more likely to hand the kingdom over to another relative they can trust than risk a change like that happening. Even if you were queen, everyone under your command would be against it. You'd be assassinated"

Suddenly Taria woke up. She immediately got up off the ground.

"Don't try to move too much" said Alice, "you took quite a beating, you should rest up"

Taria smiled at Alice.

"Don't worry about me" she said, "I've been taking floggings for twelve years now. So I passed out every now and then. I'm always ready to get back to work once I'm awake. But thanks for helping me, nobody has ever stood up for me before"

"You've been tortured like this for twelve years?" asked Alice, "how are you even alive?"

"Often when I passed out from a whipping, my father talked to me in my dreams" said Taria.

"You're father?"

"The war god Ares, you might know him as Mars or Tyr. I'm his daughter" said Taria, "so that would make Hippolyta and Antiope my half-sisters. Before Antiope became royal advisor, being Ares' daughter would pretty much guarantee becoming a soldier and eventually a member of the Amazon Royal Family. But when Antiope ascended, she killed most of the other royals, keeping only the queen alive as a puppet"

"How do you know all this?" asked Alice.

"My father told me in my dreams" said Taria, "since then, Antiope always tried to keep any future sisters from power so she'd always send them to the mines in the hopes they'd die from exhaustion. After I was born, my father stopped having Amazon children. I'm the only one who has so far survived the mines, some of my father's children are stronger than others, I guess"

"I don't know how a person can go through all that" said Alice.

"I couldn't talk to anyone without being whipped so I couldn't make any friends. My own mother was an overseer. She spat at me being such a disappointment and even flogged me herself"

"That's horrible" said Alice.

"Boo-woo" said Farsel, sarcastically.

"But during this time, I learned I possessed a special power" said Taria, "I was once given a pickaxe meant for digging. Once I touched the object, I instantly knew everything about it in regards to killing. I immediately attacked my overseers with it, I killed all of them, including my mother. Unfortunately, I failed to escape and was flogged for my troubles. The overseers were replaced and I was never given any task that required the use of anything that could be used as a weapon"

"So you grab any weapon, you will be an instant expert?" asked Farsel.

"I only ever got to use it with the pickaxe but I assume it would work with any weapon" said Taria, "that was twelve years ago. Since then I've just focused on whatever task the overseers gave me. When Antiope saw that I wouldn't die, she began having me whipped for her amusement and an attempt to break my spirits. She would have succeed if my father didn't give me the strength to keep going, I think he wants me to end Antiope's reign"

Taria found herself stopping for breath.

"This is longest I've ever got to talk with someone. Thank you"

The cell door opened.

"Okay, Taria, back to work"

Taria turned to leave her cell.

"I promise you, I'll find a way to rescue you" said Alice, "you won't have to live like this forever"