many hands push him and prod him ... then he is nakedly stripped but still head-cloaked ... several feet swiftly knock out his feet from under him ... kneeling upon the deck ... great pressure is placed upon his neck and his face and shoulders are ground into the boats planksdarlms amulet is ripped off , tossed , kicked asidethere , for a moment , frak finds himself oddly laughing , a weird delirious kind of giddy , giggling laughter ... goms high-pitched , snorted laughterthen , a hard but not too rigid stick prods his ass , a rod not as firm as a tree branch but something sturdy enough to press , slowly drill into himhe wiggles and tries to stand up but two hard slaps whack his head bowed ... the pressure is not relievedthe grinding comes again and again , each time hurting a bit more than before , from slow to constantfor a dumbfounded moment the image arises within him of magxs magical third-hand-of-one-finger , of seeing it in the sacred ceremony of adult male initiation where the young are shown what a male must do and not donot be pierced !