Chapter Nine
Truth or Dare
Melanie woke with a start. She had not even realized that she had fallen asleep, bound and packed inside the tiny cage. It was not her first rude awakening. The end of her fitful sleep was brought about, once more, by a subconscious attempt to move and the startling realization that she could not. Every time one of these sudden awakenings happened, it brought with it a new awareness of her predicament. She cried out softly, whining, as the hopelessness of her situation filled her.
She had managed to roll onto her back after Jonathan had left her, the only reasonably comfortable position she could find with her arms locked in the cuffs of the yoke beside her head. The cuffs on her ankles, however, would not allow her feet to pass far through the bars of the ca
