Chapter Twenty
Training And Socializing
For the longest time I was kept in my kennel and exercised on the treadmill every day. Leona came to fasten me in the morning and released me at night to chain me down. I craved her appearances desperately, even though they were always rampant with discomfort and pain, for she was the only human contact I was permitted during that time of misery, and even though she spoke only in stern command, I needed her presence in the worst way. I was fed and watered automatically, bathed within the suit, had my bodily waste extracted by the machine, and was permitted little audio input, other than her commands.
Gradually, I got used to the complete enclosure and the restraints that so encumbered me, until, after a while, I forgot what it had ever been like t
