Chapter Twenty-Two
Exercising To Futility – The Treadmill
Aruf Mahjalis
My daughter was paying for her crimes as the religious authorities required she must to avoid execution, and although her travail was severe, I was in partial agreement with the means they decreed were required, but there remained yet another set of devices that had been created and added to her disciplinary ensemble. To this point they had remained inactive and awaiting their time. Delilah had been a prisoner within the cell for many months, and it was time for her to be subjected to the next stage of her discipline - hard labour. Exercise was a definite requirement, for the harness restricted her severely, and so she would now begin to work on the machines installed for her. I listened to the guard when he add
