he’s a trustee now so he’s allowed outside.
inmates for ideas on how life here could become less pleasant. And Servitor came up with the daily branding.
Of course, we already knew that the inmates hate the branding iron, more than
anything else. But you can’t burn them
every day, they wouldn’t last their sentences.
the idea of strapping each inmate down every day. The guard stands behind the prisoner, and
grabs a red-hot iron, but she also grabs one that’s just slightly warm. Then another guard rolls two dice. If she
rolls two sixes, he gets the glowing brand, if she rolls anything else he gets
the cold one. But the movement is just
the same each time, so he won’t know until he feels it.
chance of at least one of them being burnt in each row. Every single day, back
they come, for their branding time.
prisoner? Show Sergeant Woods your arse!
it. They all do. More than two years of his sentence to go… how many more double sixes, eh Servitor?