Chapter Eight Penance In My Cell Slowly, I backed away from the pair of robed wraiths, trying to ward them off with my chained hands, begging and howling into my tight gag, but they stalked me easily until my feet tangled in my hobble chain and its leash. I fell heavily to the floor, weeping wildly and frantically jerking my hands against their sturdy chains, but the two sisters didn’t care. One of them grasped my collar leash in her gloved hand then pulled me to my knees by it. “Get up, girl!” one of them commanded unsympathetically. “It’s time for you to be put to bed, and you may as well get used to the idea that it is how you will spend most of your nights from now on. Stand up!” My collar tether was again jerked at harshly, choking me efficiently and I reluctantly rose to my feet

