As I looked a bit closer I noticed that the victim i caught the night before had finally died, shame i thought had a new use for him, ah well one of the new recruits would have to do.

I then had a great idea i walked up to the young lass in the torture, her name was Rebecca i think, well she was still hanging on in there i had always admired her resiliency but that didn't matter i was going to use her and also make her suffer even more.

I went to her machine and stopped it, I put her face above the oil because i would love to see her reaction, there was a mix of fear, confusion and hope, ha id soon change that, I took my index finger and gently began to rub her deformed face, i then went over again but hard this time peeling away skin and flesh revealing the bone beneath, she didn't scream, don't think she could without breaking more flesh.

I cut her free from her torture parts of skin and flesh ripping off as she moved, I rigged up a mechanism to make her able to stand and put tape around her mouth.

I opened up the door to my lair and carried her back through the sewers, i could feel her starting to move with anticipation. I then opened up my store room, this was near the entrance to the sewers but still invisible to the untrained eye. I lay her down and waited, I knew everything about my next victim like how he was working to 11:00 tonight, and would leave his office about 11:15.

About 9:00 i went up and dug a small and efficient pit for the victim, posing as a workman no-one looked at me twice, what they didn't know was i planted pongee sticks at the bottom of my hole and tipped them with one of my efficient, painful poisons, it wouldn't kill the man but would severely disable him. I finished at 10:00 and returned to my dark abode leaving fences around my hole and concealing it with a blue cover.

11:00

Time to get to work the exhausted walking corpse beside me had fell asleep so I lifted her up as roughly as I could to wake her up. She squirmed a little but accepted her fate, I climbed the ladder out of the sewer and into the crisp night. I positioned myself in a prominent position in front of the newspaper building, completely invisible by shadows and set up my 'dummy'.

I placed her in a place that would have been easily visible by Mark, I then took away the workman signs away from my hole it was so dark it was impossible to see and impossible to distinguish the cover for, well a cover, I also put a torch illuminating Rebecca. I waited. 15 minutes later, he came out of the building upon seeing the girl he rushed to help her, I had developed some kind of grudge against this man and wanted him to suffer, in that instant he fell into my pit trap. I saw movement in the corner of my eye, a witness, I ran after her keeping to the alleys, anticipating her moves, I overtook her and jumped out at her from the dark alley. But she wasn't there, further down the road she had fallen over and couldn't get back up.

"Typical a drunk oh well you've seen too much now, im afraid you are going to suffer now" I smiled a dark, evil smile.

"No please I won't tell anyone honestly" she pleaded.

"Oh I do love it when they beg" I laughed darkly. I advanced on her knocked her out with the back of my boarding knife. I slashed the back of her legs and threw her down the nearest sewer entrance. I'll deal with her later I thought, I looked up at the church clock it read 11:30, ugh I had wasted 15 minutes on her, I ran back to my pit trap, but it was empty. "Damn it, he has escaped he could be anywhere by now" I said malice obvious in my voice. But at another look at the pit trap i noticed something there was a blood on one of the pongee sticks.

He'll bleed out before he does any damage I thought. I'll leave him till later.

There was one last loose end that had to be sorted out I went back to Rebecca and started stroking her.

I whispered in her ear, "Ah dear Rebecca, so obedient, loyal, and resilient, for this event tonight you shall be granted freedom." You should of seen the look of joy in her eyes so i fulfilled my promise undid the mechanism keeping her up and carried her above the pit.

"Have a great afterlife" I teased and dropped her in to the pongee sticks instantly killing her. I pulled the cover back over the hole leaving the body behind in the hole.

I descended back in to my sewer lair and dragging the unconscious girl by the back of her hair I dragged her through the filth. I had an intended torture for the reporter but the plan had changed now so I put my latest victim in the torture device. It was a tunnel with razor sharp glass covered in a very weak poison the tunnel was only manoeuvrable by crawling. There were extra features in this tunnel but she would find out in her own time.

I went back to my room overseeing the torture and turned on the monitor monitoring our new victim's progress, I would have a long fun day tomorrow monitoring her.