Yes! Some of the biggest rats have jumped up on me. Now there are more, coming from the pit. Suddenly there are hundreds of them running over me, over my body, over my face, touching my eyes, my mouth with their cold mouths. Aaagh! In seconds the blade will begin to cut into me. I must lie still, I must lie still... And yes! The rats are eating into the ropes - I can feel it! The blade of the pendulum begins to cut my shirt, and now my body, but the rats have done their work and the ropes fall away from me. I push the rats off, move away from the pendulum, off the bed, onto the floor. There! I am free! Free - but still a prisoner of the Inquisition. The pendulum has stopped moving. It is going back up through the ceiling. So, they are still watching me. What new terror will they send me now? I look around my metal prison. Already, something is different, something has changed. What is it? And this yellow light, where is it coming from? I look again at the metal walls - and now I can see the narrow gap along the bottom. The yellow light comes from there. I get down to look, but cannot see through the gap.

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