Memories

Lucius lays on the stone floor of his "room". Nothing more then 4 thick walls, one small window which barely lets in any sunlight and a drain in the middle of the floor. The heavy door which locks him in isn't visible from the inside. The only thing the room contains besides Lucius himself is an ornate silver bowl which holds icy cold water. Lucius lays his muscles creaming in agony from the harsh treatment of his body yet he is too exhausted to move. His tightly bound arms weigh heavy on his mutilated back. But knowing that no position will bring any new comfort he doesn't try baring the pain as it is.
He had expected his new Master to be cruel even sadistic. He remembered those traits with pleasure from twenty years past. Perhaps his memories had tricked him after all. He hadn't expected this.

Two Aurors had dragged him from his cell at the Dark Lord's command depositing him with his new Master. Filthy and hungry he had expected even the smallest reprieve to get his strength up again before being uses as would befit his current station. Lucius had been wrong his Master wanted to get started at once. As the Aurors left he had been dragged by house elves in to a stone room much like the one which was currently his home. He was chained to the wall without explanation his arms stretched high above his head his tows barely balancing on the floor trying to hold his body aways from the icy wall. There he had been left for what seemed like hours before his Master came to examine him.
He hadn't heard his Master coming in all that he know of his Master's presence was the whip flaying the skin off his back. The whipping continuing until Lucius couldn't scream any longer, until he was standing in a puddle of his own blood the crimson flowing down his legs and making standing even more difficult. Only when he had sagged against the icy wall barely conscious did it end. Only then did Lucius feel his Master's touch for the first time.
"This is a warning. I prefer my slaves to be well behaved these days. To make this perfectly clear you will receive a small taste of all the punishments which await you if you do decided to misbehave in the future."
His Master's long fingers wrapped around Lucius's hair and yanked his head back. When his mouth opened in a now voiceless cry a potion was forced down his throat.
"That will strengthen you some enough for you to be aware of what is happening pay attention to it slave."
His Master stepped back and the chains which had held Lucius up disappeared dropping him on the floor. Then there were the house elves again cleaning his blood off the floor but not from his body as Lucius was dragged to another room. This one wasn't bare as he was forced on to his hands and knees Lucius wondered what the small cage in the middle of the room was for. It didn't occur to Lucius that it was for him until one of the house elves grabbed his collar and forced him to crawl to the cage door. The humiliation of being handled by a house elf was eclipsed by the fear of what would happen if he entered the contraption. the cage was just barely wide enough for his shoulders and not long enough for him to stay on all fours. He pulls at his collar trying to back away but the house elf is of course stronger. Used to far heavier and stronger beasts then Lucius underfed and severely whipped the creature simply forced Lucius further and further in to the cage. When his neck and shoulders are in the cage the house elf choses a different method of motivation. A rattan cain lands first on Lucius's ass then on the back of his legs and when he isn't quick enough to pull his feet in to the cage on the souls of his feet. If it had been his Master present Lucius might have tried to plead, it was pointless to plea with a house elf the creature would follow the orders it had been given no matter what after all.
The cage held him fast there was no room to move unless he kept himself tightly together his back pressed agonizingly in to the bars, Lucius already know that his knees would bear the marks of the floor bars for a long time after he was released, if he was ever released. The house elf disappeared and with it when all the light in the room. Locked up, unable to see or hear anything, only able to feel pain and not knowing what the future would hold Lucius screamed even without his voice.