Chapter Nineteen
The Swing
Delilah
I couldn’t stop the violent retching reaction that the horrible tube continually provoked. Even though I tried desperately to ignore it, my body reacted, and I remained crouched on the floor after I had been abandoned, shaking and gagging in misery against the awful thing embedded in my mouth, throat, and stomach.
As soon as the doctor turned away, my hearing was once more removed, and so I huddled in utter silence, contemplating my life and what had become of me. At last, I struggled slowly to my hoofed feet and made my way to the posts in front of the computer keyboard and suspended monitors. There was no escape from the constant drag of the heavy chain leashes from my neck and waist, and further weeping came with the certain knowledge I would be
