Chapter Three
Lucy’s First Visitor
Lucy had not been at the cloister three days when they took her quietly from her cell in the dead of night and hustled her down the dank corridor to a room outfitted in what might be called Contemporary Inquisition décor. The stone walls dripped dampness, the furniture was late 12th century wrought iron. The accessories included horizontal and vertical racks, multiple rusted rings on the walls and in the floor, tiny barred cages, metal boxes for heads and feet, upright adjustable posts mounted in the floor, suspension chains, two whipping posts, an iron maiden and a smoking brazier with various branding irons, large pliers, a few sturdy metal picks and other implements of torture stuck into the glowing coals.
Sitting in a massive raised chair was an o
