Found Alone

Torture was once thought to take you as close to death as possible, without ever killing you. The reasoning was that if it was your time to die, you simply would. There would be no one to blame, no sin, no crime and thus no punishment, by God or any other.

It was an accounting of deeds, and a trial that would either claim your life or release the demons that possessed you. This was a thought held onto for many centuries.

But in the timeframe we speak of now, torture was thought of as punishment for allowing the demon to enter – as well as a frightful way to chase them out.

Of all pain, the fear of pain holds the strongest incentive to change your ways or rearrange your religious beliefs, or for that matter, to renounce another or claim to be the devil himself, incarnated to do whatever you were asked to report.

This is the most violent act possible in the physical world.

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Found alone in the shelter of a cave, the child was taken by force. Bound and gagged, she was carried away in a bag, and placed in a cage.

You, as this child, had been determined to be possessed by demons, and placed in the hands of those who chased the demons away. A kinder way of saying this could not be found, for there was no kindness ever shown the child from that moment on.