Sàmhach, the Silent One
Copyright© 2026 by CaptainPig
Chapter 6
Warning: This chapter includes descriptions of the rape and sexual abuse of children by adults and other children. All of this abuse is only vaguely described as clinically and non-erotically as I can. This section will be marked with a line of asterisks at start and finish so that you may skip it if you so desire.
Glossary
Eubh (EE-vaa)
Bride (BRI-dee)
Ásbjörg (OWS-byerg
Birgit (BER-get)
Bogisdóttir (BO-geez-doh-tir)
Gaol (jail)
Lòchran (LOH-khruhn) lorry, a truck
Seanair (SHEN-er, Grandfather)
Seanmhair (SHEN-ah-vee) Grandmother
Garbhach (GAR-vahkh) Grandson
Gaedlish (GAAD-lish) the fusion language created by combining Gaelic and English. The written and spoken language of the United Provinces.
“There’s a boy here in the orphanage, Edward Clark,” Gwen said. “He’s fourteen years old and bigger than everyone else here. He’s raped most of the girls and some of the smaller boys. He’s raped Judith several times. The sisters and Father Martin know about it, but they punish anyone who tries to report Edward. He always claims that they are lying and the Father and the sisters take his side. This morning at breakfast he told me that tonight it would be my turn.”
Instantly, my rage was back. I was so angry that I was almost shaking.
‘Do you think that he knows something about them that they want kept quiet?’ I signed. ‘Is he blackmailing them?’
“Oh, yes,” Gwen replied. “All of them. Father Martin makes the five and six years old boys suck his dick. Sister Gregory likes to take those same boys to her room and tie them up. She whips them and then makes them lick her. Sisters Michael and Barbara are lovers and they take the older girls to their room and make them have sex with them. Only after Edward has raped them though.”
There were five other girls in the room listening to us. They had been getting ready for bed when we came in, but had stopped and gathered around us. They were all nodding in agreement.
One of them spoke. “You don’t know us yet, of course. My name is Bet Karlsdóttir. Everything Gwen said is true. Edward has raped every one of us except Gwen more than once. Sisters Michael and Barbara have taken each of us to their room to use us for sex many times.”
Just then we heard the hour bell toll ten times.
“Curfew and lights out. Edward will be coming soon,” Gwen said.
‘No,’ I signed. ‘It ends now. Girls, all of you get behind the bed at the far end of the room. I will take care of Edward.’
I stood and moved to stand five feet from the door. I could hear the girls moving to the back of the room. They were whispering, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying.
I centered myself physically and mentally just as Tàmhas had taught me. I dropped into the mindless combat state that doesn’t think, only sees and acts. I could hear footsteps out in the hallway coming toward the door.
The door opened and a boy stepped in. He was about 5 feet six inches tall and fat, perhaps 280 pounds.
His clothes were dirty, his blond hair uncombed and matted. He stank. He raised a hand toward me and I could see the dirt under his nails and embedded in all of the creases of his skin.
“Ha,” he said. “Fresh meat. I’ll have you suck my dick when I get through with Gwen. Get out of my way.”
I didn’t move.
“I said get out of my way,” he repeated.
I still didn’t move.
“Gwen, get over here, you little cunt. Don’t make me come and get you. You’ll hurt a lot more if you do.”
No one moved.
“All right, you asshole,” he said. “ I’ll just do you first and then take care of the little cunt.”
He took a step toward me and reached out with his right hand to grab me. I slid to my left a little and used an inside to outside block with my right hand, then seized his wrist and twisted to lock his elbow. I used my left fist to hammer down on his forearm. I could hear and feel both forearm bones break.
As he started to take in a breath to yell, I used a left back fist to smash his nose, then wrapped my left arm around his right arm, putting him into an arm bar. I slid my right foot behind his right foot and pushed him back. As he started to fall backward, his knee straightened, then I lifted my left foot and stomped on his knee. I felt all of the ligaments tear and the knee cap break. He shrieked and I let him drop to the floor.
As he laid there crying, Gwen walked up.
“I’m a little cunt, am I,” she said, then she kicked him in the balls with everything she had. He screamed and started to curl into a ball, but she kicked him in the head and knocked him out.
There was a moment or two of silence in the room until Judith walked over and kicked Edward in the groin. In a moment more, the other girls came over and each of them kicked him in the groin too.
They started to line up to kick him again, but I held up my hand to stop them. I could see blood staining the crotch of his trousers.
‘Enough,’ I signed, Gwen repeating my words. ‘If you kick him much more, he might die.’
“Good,” one of the girls said.
‘His testicles are destroyed. Which is better, for him to die as a bull or to live as a steer?’ I signed.
Bet giggled and then all of the girls were laughing semi-hysterically.
‘We need to call the constables and tell them about Father Martin and the sisters,’ I signed. ‘Where can we find a gath?’
“We can probably use the one at the front desk,” Bet said. “Sister Barbara is supposed to be there at night, but I know that right after she locked the front door, she and Sister Michael took Eubh to their room.
‘All right,’ I signed. ‘A couple of you give me the sashes from your robes.’
Two of the girls immediately handed me their sashes. I dragged Edward over to one of the beds. Not worrying about his broken bones, I tied his hands behind him, then tied them to the bed frame. I then tied the other sash around his neck and to the bed frame, not giving him any slack to move. I placed him onto his side so that he wouldn’t drown in the blood from his broken nose.
Gwen and Bet followed me down the stairs to the desk at the front door. There was no sign of Sister Barbara or anyone else around.
Gwen said, “Bet, watch for the sisters or anyone else coming around.”
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