WEBCAM
contaminate the crime scene. “What?”
    “Her guts,” Roy said. “The Snipper tied her intestines in a big bow. Like a Christmas present.”

CHAPTER 4
    Erinyes is searching.
    Searching, searching, searching, always searching.
    Searching for naughty girls.
    So many naughty girls on the Internet. So many who need to be punished.
    The Internet is a porn wasteland. A cesspool.
    A biblical flood is needed once again, to wipe out all the sinners.
    But Erinyes knows that God doesn’t care. There won’t be another intervention.
    Sodom and Gomorrah is so old Testament.
    Even the New Testament is two thousand years old.
    Erinyes is writing the now Testament.
    God’s vengeance, right now.
    One dead whore at a time.
    Erinyes looks at pornography. So much filth. But it is filth from the past.
    Old sins.
    So much of the Internet is what people once did .
    Erinyes cares about what people are doing .
    Erinyes has to catch the sinners in action.
    So Erinyes watches webcams. Webcams are live. Webcams are now .
    Erinyes searches for the next naughty girl to be punished.
    Too many to choose from. But Erinyes is looking for someone specific.
    A specific girl.
    A special girl.
    Erinyes uses a brute-force attack.
    Erinyes IS a brute-force attack.
    Erinyes gets a hit, and logs in as the administrator.
    Erinyes is searching.
    Searching.
    No good.
    The specific, special girl isn’t there.
    Erinyes must try elsewhere.
    Sometimes the search takes a long time.
    The specific, special girl is tricky. She hides from Erinyes. She doesn’t want to suffer Penance.
    Erinyes is patient.
    Erinyes is patience .
    Erinyes can wait for as long as it takes to find the right girl.
    The specific, special girl.
    A sound, from the basement.
    Moaning. Crying.
    Erinyes looks up from the computer. Checks the time.
    Breakfast.
    Erinyes walks into the kitchen, gets the bag from the cabinet. Gets a bottle of water.
    Takes both into the basement.
    It’s dark. Erinyes’ feet creak on the stairs, and that prompts whimpering to emanate from the darkness. Whimpering, and the rattling of chains.
    Erinyes sees the bowl on the floor. Pours in dog food. Sets down the plastic water bottle filled with antibiotics, and picks up the empty.
    “I punished another one,” Erinyes says into the darkness. “Last night.”
    The darkness doesn’t answer.
    Erinyes looks at the concrete floor. The dried blood.
    Sinner blood.
    Old blood.
    “Perhaps we once again need new blood,” Erinyes says, shivering at the thought.
    There is a moan from the darkness.
    “I have ordered a new whip. You wore out the old one.”
    More rattling. More moaning.
    Erinyes leaves the basement. Locks the door. Goes to the computer.
    Erinyes is searching.
    Searching.
    Searching.
    Searching.
    Searching.
    Endless searching, for the specific, special girl.
    Erinyes checks the time.
    Lunch.
    Erinyes walks into the kitchen, gets the bag from the cabinet. Gets a bottle of water. Adds antibiotics.
    Takes both into the basement.
    The darkness swallows Erinyes.
    The dog dish is empty. Erinyes fills it with food. Takes the empty bottle. Leaves the fresh one.
    “Penance, tonight.”
    “Please… no more.”
    “This is for your own good. I’m saving your soul. You should thank me.”
    Erinyes listens to the crying in the darkness.
    Atoning for sins is painful.
    Upstairs again.
    Searching online.
    Searching searching searching.
    Erinyes takes a break from the searching, checks the local news.
    The police have already found the last one.
    Interesting .
    Then there’s another blunt-force hit.
    This one is different than a regular sexcam site. This is a sorority house on a college campus. The girls allow themselves to be watched by those who pay.
    Erinyes does not pay.
    Erinyes logs in as an administrator.
    Six girls. One house.
    Erinyes is searching.
    There.
    The specific, special girl is there.
    Now Erinyes is watching.
    Watching watching watching.
    Then Erinyes is finding out all there is to know about the

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