Chapter Sixteen N159 Iris had been acquired and prepared for her training in the bunker as N159. She had been reduced to a number, an object, not worth more than the amount of pleasure it could give in s****l use. All this was mirrored in her entrance: the name was gone, clothes denied, her hair been taken, she had been beaten, hosed down brutally, photographed like for a sales catalog, and finally sexually ‘tested’, not to say, simply r***d. Next to this kind of objectification and degradation the communication was reduced to the minimum. No words or explanations were given. Questions were punished. There was no talk at all but what was needed for the training. What was always there, was the always recurring phrase, “If you comply and do as you are told, you will be rewarded. You resis

