One Thousand Tiny Daggers
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One Thousand Tiny Daggers
"Ugghhh" Sentry groaned as she woke up and lifted her pounding head off her chest. The light brown cat was slumped up against a well outside the town tavern. The sun was already high and Sentry cursed herself for drinking so much the night before - she couldn't even remember what had happened after about 11pm, she had been out celebrating catching out a local miscreant called Fey and had got a little raunchy.
As the feline stared at the ground, the world still slightly spinning, two pairs of paws came into view and the sun was blocked out as two furs towered over her. Sentry looked up to see two town guards, clad in their armour and capes and armed with spears.
"Ahh here you are, we have had several complaints about your behaviour last night Sentry"
Sentry just looked up and groaned, not able to remember anything so not able to argue.
"You know the law kitty" said one of the guards as they each grabbed one of Sentry's arms and lifted her to her feet, "Public disorder means the stocks..."
Sentry groaned again as she was marched off through the town. A blush came to the cats face as people started to look at her; she was a knight of the realm and a local hero - known for combating local criminals so this was a very humiliating situation.
As they rounded the corner and headed towards the stocks, which situated in the middle of the town, Sentry saw there was already another fur in the stocks and as they drew nearer the brown canine locked in the wooden restraints filled Sentry with horror...
The other fur was Fey, the local joker who lived in a nearby swamp and Sentry had arrested yesterday before getting drunk. As the guards hauled the hung-over feline onto the raised platform, where the stocks were bolted down, the dark brown hyena smiled and giggled at Sentry tauntingly.
Sentry bowed her head in shame as she was forced to sit behind the set of double stocks and beside the giggling hyena. The guards opened the stocks after warning Fey not to try and escape and forces Sentry's feet and hands into the slots in the wood. The top section of wood was then slid back into place - trapping both furs in a sitting position with their feet and hand paws trapped out in front of them. The guards then applied a large metal padlock to the stocks - keeping them locked down tight.
"Enjoy your two days punishment Sentry, at least you won't be here as long as Fey here, and the towns people seem to like you for some reason so you might not get any fruit thrown at you!" the guards laughed as they walked off, leaving Fey and Sentry alone
Sentry sighed and dropped her head onto the wooden crossbar before finally giving in and looking to her right. Fey was beaming back at the feline with a glint in her eyes.
"Well well if it isn't the mighty knight who caught me out yesterday. From the looks of you you hit the bottle pretty hard eh?"
"Fey shut up, I do not need this today, they should gag criminals in the stocks." Sentry groaned
"You mean criminals like you!" Fey retorted
"How dare you! I am not a criminal, I just... well I dunno what I did but this is a terrible mistake and I am not like you so just shut up"
Fey did so but kept grinning at her former captor. Sentry started straight ahead as long as she could before breaking the silence again.
"You don't seem overly upset to be here Fey" the feline grumbled
"Nahh, I spend a lot of time here, it's so worth it for the fun I have - what sort of a punishment is just sitting about all day anyway"
"It's humiliating!" Sentry blushed
"Only if you still have some self respect, that's where you fail good Sir Knight"
Sentry just threw Fey a dirty look and the pair returned to silence in the mid day sunlight.
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Early in the afternoon the pair still sat in an uneasy silence and no one had yet made more than a passing comment at the once proud knight now locked up. That was until Tobias decided to take his afternoon walk past the stock.
Tobias was the local church inquisitor and being posted to this quiet little town was hardly the most interesting work. The weasel would thus take his afternoon walk past the towns stock and jail, he could not torture furs once the authorities had them but he did like to tease them and make sure they watched their back in the future.
And so it came that Tobias approached the stocks and a wide smile broke across his face as Sentry came into view. Fey was a common sight for the weasel but Sentry was different - Tobias hated Sentry, he thought she was just a brutish ungodly rogue and thought people should be worshiping god and not some jumped up knight bitch.
"Well well Sentry you are lucky I have never had a good enough excuse to 'take you in' but it seems the guards did, what did you do eh?" sneered the dark weasel, his ropes blowing slightly in the wind
"Piss off Tobias, I do not need this today" Sentry groaned
"Now now, you are meant to be a hero Sentry, or is that just a show, a defence against insecurity?" Tobias teased
"I'm not rising to you Weasel, just go away"
"Pfft fine but you just watch yourself" Tobias said turning tail to leave
"HAHAHAH! Stop it!" Sentry suddenly burst out laughing as the weasel's tail brushed again her sole
"What was that Sentry?" Tobias sneered as he turn back around and grinned evilly, "Someone finds my tail ticklish do they?"
"No no, just..." Sentry stalled, trying to keep a straight face in the hopes Tobias would just leave
But he didn't. He knelt down by the two prisoner's trapped paws and grazed his fingers over the sole of Sentry's foot.
"Heheh!" she giggled again before regaining control and forcing a serious look
Tobias glared evilly and started his assault. He put a paw to each of Sentry's soles and started to tickle them with his finger tips. He started slowly but even so Sentry giggled loudly and squirmed in the stocks overcome by the urge to struggle and get away but totally unable to. Instead she wiggled her toes and laughed incessantly as Tobias started to speed up and his tickling became more intense. As Sentry giggled out of control Tobias flicked his tail across and started to brush it across Fey's soles. The hyena began to wriggle and giggle as the tail brushed across her feet but she was not quite so frenetic as Sentry, either because the Weasel's tail was not as torturous as his fingers or because Fey was not quite so averse to this particular torture and Sentry.
Tobias continued for what felt like over half an hour before he stopped and stepped back. The stockaded pair breathed a sigh of relief but it was short lived as the Weasel knelt down again, this time at Fey's soles and his tail attended to the feline. The pair once again broke down into fits of struggling and laughter - unable to do much else. This time Tobias bored more quickly but just as his abuse seemed to be winding down for the second time he suddenly noticed they feathers woven into Fey's hair.
Quickly plucking two of the feathers he held them by their spines and used the downy ends on one sole each of both of the captives - kneeling between them. Fey and Sentry were exhausted by this point and their numb feet had almost become used to the abuse but this new assault brought about a renewed torment. Even in comparison to Tobias's tail the feathers hairs were microscopic and delivered a soft but feverishly ticklish touch. The girls renewed their struggling to the best of their abilities but the shadows where growing long and they were running out of energy to fight with.
Tobias got more bored as his victims began to react less and less and as a final attempt to extort a response he spun the feathers around and used their stiff spines to bore into Fey and Sentry's soles. The cat and hyena did show some increased discomfort but it was not enough for Tobias, who himself was tiring by this time, and he stood up and started to walk away.
The girl's breathed a sigh of relief yet again and yet again it was shattered when Tobias spotted a bucket out of the corner of his eye and moved over to it. He dipped his finger into it and tasted it. Evidently pleased with what he tasted he picked the bucket up and approached the pair in the stocks. Both Sentry and Fey winced and braced themselves to be soaked but the weasel surprised them when he dribbled it over their sore feet, the salty water soothing the numb and abused soles. Putting the bucket aside Tobias leant against a nearby gate leading into a field and smiled.
"Well you pair I've done my best but still I don't quite think you've learned your lesion yet... I can guarantee by the morning you will have though!" The weasel laughed before unpinning the gate, swinging it open and heading off back to the church
Sentry and Fey looked at each other in a join mixture of despair and relief before resting their heads on their chests and closing their eyes - it was late now and they wanted nothing more than to try and get some sleep.
It seemed just as Sentry had closed her eyes that a rough, wet, ticklish tongue was dragged across one of her soles. She shrieked and tired to pull away but the stocks did as good a job at restraining her as ever. Her eyes flew open to see who dare continue her torment and a goat stood at her feet, nonchalantly licking away at the salty water that had been dribbled on them. Even her exhaustion could not suppress a renewed giggling as the goat worked away. Fey awoke to the commotion and shifted uneasily as she knew when the goat tied of Sentry's soles it would most certainly move on to her.
And so it was, the goat switching back and forth between the two into the small hours. The dawn was breaking before it finally tired and the pairs torment finally came to an end. They rested for an hour or so before the guards came along to release them. As the stocks were unlocked Fed leant across to Sentry.
"I can think of some really good pranks to play on that weasel..."
"You've got a partner..." was Sentry's simple response before she lapsed into unconsciousness.