Judicial Tales: Before the Elders

When Samantha crosses the border into the moralistic state of Morotabia, little does she think she will end up breaking one of its many laws and find herself sentenced to judicial corporal punishment at the hands of the region's Elders.
Sentenced to twenty lashes of a braided whip, followed by two hous of public display on a cross, Samantha wonders how she will ever survive.
But sometimes, however, situations are not quite as straightforward as they seem.