" But you don't mean to say you would insist on my waiting months for the sake of clothes" ? said Lydgate, half thinking that Rosamond was tormenting him prettily, and half fearing that she really shrank from speedy marriage.
The AI kept five people alive, torturing them endlessly for over a hundred years, seeming to have no other purpose or will but to inflict pain on the last remnants of the human race.
No matter what was at the end of the countdown, in the remaining one thousand or so hours, the possibilities would torture him cruelly, like demons, until he suffered a complete mental breakdown.
And she says in that she writes in the book a story about a Romani person being basically tortured until they die by being essentially sewn into the body of a horse.
He had but little faith in her ever coming back at all, and she had plagued him so much with her humours this way and that; he had grown indifferent at last.
She faced death, as women mostly do, bravely and even gaily, racked slowly to unconsciousness, but yielding only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle.