Deathbird vs. Xuan Lee

"Hmm?" Deathbird seemed intrigued by Xuan's hesitation in her voice. It's as if this thief DID knew what she's talking about. She would grunt as she got placed in the STF and she was trying to break free from the hold on her leg and head. Deathbird would try to grab that arm around her chin and pry it off so she can get free.

Unlike Deathbird,Xuan was in shock.She said something she shouldn't have.Giving a few more yanks on her opponents neck and leg,she let go and backed off.Xuan looked down at her own feet to see if they were okay. "Um...F-Forget what I said..." She tried to sat.&ut,she knew it would be futile to ask....

Deathbird grunted and took deep breaths as she rubbed her neck and leg a little from that submission. Slowly, she stood up as she heard Xuan tell her to forget what she said. "OK.....come here, you!!!" But immediately, she attempted to charge and tackle her opponent by the legs to get her on the mat before turning her over on her stomach. If this worked, she would straighten out the thief's bare feet and stomp on those toes.

"GWAH!!!" Xuan cried out,suffering more from Deathbird's toe torture.It also made her blush. "I-I...." She was about to tap,but this was still nothing in comparison to before.Those were dark times when she.....Xuan tried to crawl away,but from the middle of the ring to the ropes was so far. "Danm you,Deathbird."

Seeing how much in pain Xuan was in based on smushing her toes, Deathbird would slowly get off and said, "Wow...it seems that you HAVE been through worse in regards to your feet." She would wait until Xuan got up as she asked, "Care to tell me what happened before?"

Should she have told Deathbird what had happened? No,but....The two were friends,so she had to have some trust. "Whenever we failed a mission,we....We were punished.The men usually got their asses handed to them in paperwork or physical harm.But....The women were valued more.Our natural stealth was needed.So,we got different punishment."

Deathbird would listen as Xuan Lee explained how things worked back when she was still a thief in an organization. The men's punishment seemed a little too common, but what was in it for women? "What was the punishment of women who failed?"

"It was too late to figure it out when it happened but,our feet were pampere.I told you.They were done up too much,and became soft and vulnerable.Pins,needles;stabbed into them.Feathers were used for an hour at a time,and even straight bashings with peices of plank wood.It wasn't good...."

"Oh yes, that's right." As Deathbird listened on, these tortures sounded familiar to her. "Are you telling me that women including yourself were punished with falaka or bastinado?"

Her eyes squint a bit,and she made a confused noise. "H-How do you know?" Xuan didn't even know the name of that punishment. "It was hurtful.We watched to 'serve as a lesson'.It happened to me more and more;before I ran away." Xuan sighed. "So,its called falaka?"