"There is nothing that can make this easier," she says, voice shaking as she tries to review the tools at hand. Okay. Okay okay okay. She wants to do as little damage as possible, which means she should find something with a large surface area to spread force across his body rather than concentrate it on one spot. She can't help the injuries he'll have from the hooks, but she can do her best to avoid giving him anything else that lasts.

Covering her ears won't help. Her hearing is too keen, and besides, a part of her feels like she deserves to hear what she does. She tries to rationalize it as wanting to know when to ease off, but it feels almost masochistic.

She tries to keep her hands from shaking as she picks up a paddle from the table. She doesn't bother reading his list of sins, instead focusing on the paddle, weighing it in her hand and checking the width of its surface area next to the other tools. "This--this shouldn't hurt you too much."

It's going to hurt like hell, but it won't break any bones or break the skin, and that's all Vanya can really ask for at the moment.