Sarah Edmondson

I'm only going to ask you to do things.

And I'm only going to ask you to do things that I've done myself.

And that are good for you.

And so the way that this was presented is I was going to do something difficult and painful and without anesthetic that if I got through it would build my character and give me strength and experience the kind of pain that is the backbone of this loving master-slave relationship.

I know this sounds like total garbage, but like all of those words have years and years of indoctrination.

belief behind them, right?

Yes.

Trainings like hours and hours and hours of trainings you can't even imagine.

So for me, um,

I was there for hours.

My particular branding, I think, was somewhere between 20 and 40 minutes.

Some people took closer to an hour.

It was a cauterizing pen that was dragged along your skin over a stencil.

So there was a stencil of the symbol on my body and then every line took like five to 10 seconds and then they'd stop and there'd be some...

I can't, like, I'm so... I disassociated so hard that I don't know.

Yeah, of course.

I know that, like, there were times when we were laughing.

It was so uncomfortable.

There were times when we were crying.

There were times when I was, like, floating above my body.