"Did I hear something wrong?" The commanding officer asked his assistant who didn't reply to his question. The assistant knew that the commanding officer wouldn't let Emelia go easily.
"No, you didn't. But if you did you should go clean your ears. It might not have been cleaned for who knows how long," Emelia answered back, and didn't she know that the commanding officer slapped her on the face. The slap made her upper body fall onto the ground. She was lucky her arms weren't chained behind her back. If it were she wouldn't be able to push herself back up.
Despite her cheek staggering she continued to stare at the commanding officer without any fear. Why isn't this woman scared of him? The assistant officer asked himself as he felt the tension between them grew colder.
Emelia said those words was because she didn't want that old, disgusting man to touch her. She preferred to touch the soil than a man touching her.