Characters: Wazzer
Rating: D

Disclaimer: The author makes no claim to owning the rights of anything to do with Terry Pratchett or Discworld.

The Special Room
by Amazon Syren

     The room is small, only a few feet across. No windows to let in the light, no grill in the door, to let out the sound. The room has thick walls, and the ceiling is cushioned with sacks of straw nailed between the rafters. This is the Special Room.

     There are no hooks on the walls. No chains to choke your body til it dies. They would offer an escape. And there is no escape here.
     Buried deep, so no-one can hear you screaming. No one can hear you crying.
     They call it redemption.
     The Daughters of Nuggan with their lips like lemons and their cruel intentions.
     Father Jupe who says that pain is the way to salvation.
     Father Jupe with the knife in his hands, and the knife between his legs.
     Father Jupe who says to thank Nuggan for his mercies. But Nuggan is dead, and I know this. And there are no mercies here.

     They think there is no escape from here.
     But they are wrong.
     In the Special Room, where they break the flesh, rend and tear, and the tears pour down, I can escape. To the safest place where no-one can ever hurt me. Deep, deep down I go and into my self and out, and I am free. Whatever they do to that body down there, they can not do to me.

     They think there is no escape from here.
     But they are wrong.
     The Duchess has spoken to me in my dreams, has spoken to me in the safest place, and told me that I will go into service. In three days time, when the bruises are fading, and the angry welts have settled, I will go into service, at the home of a widow and her children. Seven children. The Duchess has told me she can move small things.
     The Duchess has told me she can move small thoughts.
     She can move small thoughts out of people's heads. Small thoughts like "remember to lock the door tonight". Small thoughts like "close the window".

     There will be an escape from this place.
     There will be an escape from this hell that is Nuggan's.
     There will be an escape for us all.