Chapter Eighteen
Suspended Animation
I began to see Alexandra more frequently after acclimatizing to my incredible imprisonment, but with her more frequent reappearances came another change that I began to hate more and more each time it occurred. She changed my scheduling again so that now I spent nearly half of my nights in suspension, rather than being pinned motionless on my mat. At first I found it difficult to sleep in a vertical position, but eventually, each night held either flat on my back or dangling above the floor, exhaustion claimed me and I did in fact sleep. It was by no means a pleasant occurrence in either case and my comfort did not enter into the equation at all.
The first time I was suspended and left to spend my so-called rest period I was both shocked and terrifie
