Chapter Ten
My Lifetime Imprisonment Begins
“We will now proceed. Sister Magdalene and Sister Jennifer, take the Postulant to the Preparation Bar. She is to be completely disrobed, then we shall begin.”
The two of them grasped my upper arms again and lifted me to my feet because I couldn’t stand on my own, for my knees had turned to jelly. One of them held me while the other released my hands, singly, from the belt and fastened my wrists into sturdy leather cuffs, wide spread at each end of the dangling bar, then my robe was stripped away to leave me standing utterly naked and vulnerable. I flushed bright red in a full body blush at being so completely revealed to these strange women, but this was truly only the very beginning of my misery. The two sisters knelt at my feet and I felt my
