/lit/ - Literature

>>22075897
Oh! Okay, that makes sense. Originally, the scene was different. In the previous draft there were no witnesses, so the element of humiliation was non-existent. A beta reader pointed out that it didn't make sense for something like that to not be public, because then it would be ripe for abuse (it doesn't take a detective to imagine what the result of that would be).

In the last draft I copied and pasted the scene but changed the setting from her cell to a public courtyard, since I thought that made more sense logically. But you're right that I failed to think about the differences between focusing on the internal aspect rather than the humiliation. I'm actually going to rewrite it later now that I've learned something.