The leather bullwhip continues to cut his ass and back, slash after slash, followed by searing mists of on the fresh wounds. Then Nikolai is lifted up onto his toes, every muscle in his body stretched as if he were on a rack, and left to hang like that for hours, alone, in agony. Hours later he is lowered to the ground, only to be hauled up again, this time upside-down. Jared tears into him again with the whip.
