THE PUNISHMENT
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As usual the prince came by this time in a more beautiful royal lemon green mantle laced with rare pearls and small studs of diamonds around the neck line and sleeve with his shoes shining so hard from the polish used on it, he was accompanied by his servant crew which of Lucas and Morgan were among, he took his seat by the right hand corner of the hall while the servants quickly split and took their places while Morgan mount the stage to address the slaves
"I hate this woman" Abigail thought and frowned as she mounts the stage
"As you all know, we are always here for four things, we will be making everything snappy so listen carefully as failure to do that might attract punishment" Morgan announced pointing to some sticks packaged by the left side of the hall with some stern looking men by the side
"They must be the people who carry out the punishment" Abigail muttered upon seeing them
The people due for promotions were called out and new people were introduced, she went on to mention the names of people that are being released and in no time it was the punishment section, as always silence filled the hall, it was so silent that the sound of a pin will be heard if dropped to the floor, Morgan looked around to see if all attention is on her before going back to opening the book, everyone was waiting and anticipating, scared at the same time, no one would want those frightening sticks on their bodies.
Now Morgan announced bringing back Abigail from the land of thought, the prince will address us before we move on.
The prince stood up his garment was flowing behind showcasing his mighty aura with his small crown shining on his head, everything about him speaks and screams royalty, and he mounts the stage and faced the crowd to address them.
"I know you are all slaves but you are human too, I won’t tolerate any act of indiscipline you are expected to carry out your missions while being nice to one another, why will you do something bad to your fellow human? I won’t tolerate that, even as slaves you should have morals! That’s why I’m going to carry out punishment on everyone involved in any form of indiscipline, this Kingdom’s castle is known as one of the strongest, mightiest and great castle, don’t soil our name! " The prince roared with full authority and motioned for Morgan to call out the names
Gosh, everything about this prince speaks out authority and power, he’s so handsome, look at his skin, so smooth and milky, what would it be like to work for him? So kind hearted, he even called us human All these were going on in Abigail’s head while blushing when she saw a familiar face on the stage
"Uhn? What’s she doing there?" She muttered with her eyes almost pulling off its sockets
"She’s been called for punishment" Marie said folding her hands
"Wasn’t she the one that pushed you into the water?"
"Yes, she and her crew" Abigail confirmed
"But…"
"I reported her" Marie cuts in
"Eh? When? " Abigail asked surprised
"Well some days ago" Marie shrugged
Abigail still wanted to argue more but a voice roared in….ugh Madam Morgan
"This girl here pushed her fellow slave into the pool and watched her drown, if it wasn’t for the help of another slave, we would have been holding a funeral ceremony in this honorable castle, how inhumane can one be?" Morgan questioned and faced the girl shaking like a leaf, she was filled with terror
"But Sharon ordered her" Abigail spit out to Marie, she was not comfortable with only her getting punished
"Well Sharon and others denied and pointed to her" Marie replied.
Sharon and her crew had been invited by Morgan two days ago and were questioned about the incident but Sharon had told her crew to deny it and point to the one who pushed her in the water prior to the meeting, she had threatened to make life a living hell for anyone who mentions her name, being the witch she is, they knew she would certainly do what she said so they dared not open up and all accused the girl awaiting punishment of acting on her own
"Now get on the bench" Morgan commanded
The girl shakily lied on the bench, she was now crying hard but no one was ready to listen to her, Abigail felt pity that she’s taking the punishment alone when she didn’t act alone but on the other hand was happy that someone was getting punished at least, one should not do evil just because they were told to so
“Smack” a lash landed on her buttocks through the thin Red gown she had worn, she burst into hot tears after letting out an ear-piercing scream, before she could wiggle to contain the pain, another smack landed and a scream dropped out of her mouth
"If you get off that bench, we will start afresh" Morgan said from where she was standing which made the girl hold onto the bench for her dear life, although her hands were shaking she couldn’t afford to start afresh when she only had three strokes left.
The punishment section was done and the girl was carried out by two men holding her by each shoulder because she could not walk on her alone
"Look at this and learn, we teach manners here, we won’t hesitate to punish any offender" Lucas said while waving his finger as a warning sign
The prince and his crew took their leave and the hall was filled different types of opinions and talks while Marie pulled Abigail to leave the hall
"But will Sharon ever be punished?" Abigail asked as they walk back to the castles
Maybe one day Marie said, they had arrived at the brown castle because it was the first castle after the hall, Marie bids her goodnight and left for her castle while Abigail waved and went inside the castle only to be met with people pointing at her and whispering.
"What did I do wrong?" Abigail wondered as she felt eyes and fingers all around her
She ignored them and was about to enter her room when she heard the voice from the down side of the corridor
"Abigail?" The voice called out
"Did you call for me?" She replied confused
"Will you run here now?" The voice roared and Abigail quickly runs to meet the voice, little did Abigail know that her bullying had just begun in the castle.
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