Friday, February 3, 2012

CONAN is crucified

After being captured by a hundred of the evil Constantius's men he is taken to the roadside outside the city and crucified.
By the side of the caravan road a heavy cross had been planted, and on this grim tree a man hung, nailed there by iron spikes through his hands and feet. Naked but for a loin-cloth, the man was almost a giant in stature, and his muscles stood out in thick corded ridges on limbs and body, which the sun had long ago turned brown. The perspiration of agony beaded his face and his mighty breast, but from under the tangled mane that fell over his low, broad forehead, his blue eyes blazed with an unquenched fire. Blood oozed sluggishly from the lacerations in his hands and feet.
From "A Witch Shall Be Born"
Page 365. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

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