For long, long moments, I hung twisting and choking with desperate desire while I swung back and forth; my pinioned hands and arms continuing to fight instinctually against the restriction of the separator bar. In my mind, I screamed, flailing vulnerably, “I’m not supposed to suffer like this.”
The guard reached out, then with a horrid tension on my nose ring, pulled me erect once more with its leash while I screamed then retched from the terrible pain. Again I teetered precariously on the tips of my hoof boots, staring out at him in terror, and then suddenly, my feet went out from under me again! This time I fell forward until the chain from the steel ball snapped my legs to a halt, and the one from the top of my head cage also jerked tight! Another howl tried to force its way past m
