Chapter Three
When it did come, release was not pleasant. After seven days in their horrible state, with no warning, the wall to which they were bound suddenly began to rise. As their feet left the floor, both girls awoke from their stupor of pain and boredom and slowly realized that they were being lifted upwards by their hoods and the chains on their breasts and under their arms. The two neighboring cells they were in shared the same single wall and this was being raised to another level until the entire wall, with its bound captives, was at the floor above. A panel in the ceiling of the cells slid back and the jointly shared wall rose on tracks. When it reached the next level, the panels slid shut and became floor for their new location. The girls had not realized that they were bound
