Chapter Seventeen
Arrival and Revelation
Kelly
When I finally awakened, it was to find myself hanging in the Swing, as I had been when I was placed in the case. Now however, when I stared out through the vision slits, I saw (through the usual wall of tightly spaced bars) that a dozen beautiful young women were staring in at me. I was so glad to see other human beings after being kept in solitary and sterile confinement that at first I just ignored how they were accoutred. The chain from my ankle spreader to the floor had been lengthened, allowing me to swing in short arcs and they watched closely while I tried to make signs of greeting.
It was then that I saw that they all wore a ‘uniform’ of sorts. Each woman had a wide, shiny, steel collar tightly fastened around her neck, to the bac
