It has been told that when a bird is captured yet allowed to remain "free" the owner will clip its wings so it may not fly far from home.  Perhaps this is the reasoning for the incessant beatings at the hand of Tiberius.  He demands information, yet there is none to give, and he is well aware of this.   To what end does he play this vicious game?

Daily the same routine took place.  Tiberius would walk into the cell smile a wicked knowing grin, demand information and proceeds to deliver 10 lashes then leaves her standing in a small pool of her own blood. He has proven to be a wily foe and nothing he does is without reason.  This recurring torture session only proved to what type a man Tiberius really is.

At the sight of him enter; she reset her resolve not to say anything.  This day there was a different air as he approached. He grabbed her wrist and held it a moment, looking straight into her eyes he spoke the words she had come to expect.  Today the command was almost whispered before he continued with the beating.   At the conclusion he left as usual, only laughing a fierce sneer undoing the bit of resolve left in the Pirate.