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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; In A Roman Prison, During, Say, The Second Or Third Century A.D.
Regarding that young man you have chained to that wall---
your plans are to change: you will not rip, from his
scalp, that waist-length cascade of ginger tresses;
nor pierce those perfectly circular nipples,
nor circumsize him, to watch his body squirm in the
considerable agony that you know how to inflict so well.
You will not snatch from his slender neck that small
leather thong, from which the small (and rather crudely
carved) cross dangles; nor will you cast it to the
stone floor or trample it under your hobnailed sandals.
You will do none of these, or you will suffer all of these, and
even more---should you detain him even a few moments longer.
I have the Emperor's ear on this matter:
I have the Emperor's own signature on this document of release.
I know the location of your personal residence, and
I cannot always restrain the zeal of my servants.
Starward
