They were the fairest women any of them had ever seen, save for the sharp implements that could be discerned as armor they bore upon their scantily clad bodies and the cruel, inhuman glint in their eyes. A reply, little more then a beleagured moan, issued from Syne. Xxx Her life had been a nightmare since then. She had, for possibly months, spent 16 hours a day as a test subject for the aptly named Preistesses of Pain. Then they had drug them to their feet again, this time for inspection by the most beuitiful of them all, the Preistess they were to come to know as Tallosia. She had cried after being locked away, cried for her entire eight hours of rest. The remaining 8 hours, she was bound up in some dark corner, like to this statue, and left in the most painful position
