Nikki desperately wished she could apologize to the Baron's dinner guest. How could she have known when she'd slapped that vial smelly old man, who'd just roughly groped her breasts, that he'd turn out to be one of the most powerful men at the royal court and the Baron's dearest life long friend?

Seized by the Baron's guards, she'd been quickly escorted from the great hall and down into the castle's dungeons where the guards turned her over to the Baron's high executioner.

Nikki found herself stripped of her clothing, repeatedly raped and sodomized, and finally spenting the remainder of the night hanging suspended within this brutally tight iron cage. All the while, haunted by the high executioner's final terrifying words, "You should have all night to reflect on your transgressions milady, they usually don't come until dawn."

Nikki was already beginning to shiver from the bone chilling coldness spreading upward from her icy feet and lower legs.

Just after sunrise Nikki heard a faint noise, a noise that broke the deathly silence of the dungeon chamber, the faint sound of tiny little feet running along the heavy oak beam above her followed by the sound of chewing.

It was the sound of tiny razor sharp teeth chewing on rope, as the rats began to slowly chew through the grease coated rope, the rope that was the only thing preventing the heavy iron cage with Nikki locked helplessly within, from plunging into the icy cold depths of the water filled pit beneath her.

Staring upward, Nikki helplessly listened in terror to the horrifying sound of razor sharp teeth remorselessly chewing.

Artist's Note: No Rats were injured during the production of this story. As for Lady Nikki...