I felt that we were reaching the end of this part of the session. Camille's body showed the marks of what could be described as a vicious beating. I knew how she was feeling, she described it before, after the previous session. "It was stinging. My whole body was stinging, I felt like a thousand bugs were eating at my skin."

I was sure that her breasts, her belly, her back, her legs, her arms were stinging, feeling the stinging pain of each of the strokes of the rod.

She was no longer quivering as before, she was letting her body hang as if she was loosing concioussness. She was tired, too, I didn't have to guess. We had been going at this for a while and if I felt my arms growring tired, I believe she was twice as tired or more. She was hanging from the beam and her hands were turning purple.

I hit her a few more times before deciding that it was enough, that it was time to move on to the next step.