Filthy Little Beast Part 2

The queen ordered me to follow her across the room to another door. The door was made of stone and gargoyles stood eternal guard above it. "This door has not been opened since the day thine mother underwent her rituals". I felt a deep dread in my heart at that moment, a fear of something that was to come worse than mere pain.

The woman who was my grandmother pushed on a stone and the door slowly opened. "Follow me my child," she intoned. This room was made of gray stone lit only by the stained glass windows showing depictions of men suffering in Hades. There was a line of crystal glass caskets. "This is where queens rest for eternity my child". There were women in leather in each casket. Each perfectly preserved in death. The room had over 100 crystal caskets in it and I knew that the order of queens must have gone back in time as long as they had told me. Once we passed the 20th casket the women were just skeletal remains and then simply dust. The queen ordered me to approach the last coffin in the room. There was nothing but a little dust in it. "Here lies the founder of the ancient order child". Thou shall now kneel and kiss the coffin of thine mother and my mother". The thought sickened me but the alternative was a lifetime of unbearable suffering. I kissed the casket. There was a plaque on it that Read "Daughter of Maximus, Unholy Queen of Eternal Penance. There was anther stained glass window above the casket and it was a fresco of a Roman Centurion holding spikes and a hammer. A glass case contained just one small piece of what looked like ancient wood. I was made to kneel before that case and say these words. "As the future queen I shall submit to the sorrows and penance demanded of our line for the preservation of all mankind".

The queen ordered me once again to my feet and I followed her out of the tomb. Being back in the leather torture chamber was almost a relief then. I soon found myself being strapped into onto a chair. My head being forced back and locked with an iron headband. The next thing I saw was a circular kid leather upholstered seat being lowered into place over my face. It was open and shaped like a toilet seat.