Chapter Nineteen
Master Comes To Play
Despite my horror of the situation, I gradually came to accept that this was to be my life and the only one I would know until I closed my eyes for the final time, many years in the future. Even so, just thinking about it made me frantic with despair, but of course, no one could see my tears or begging eyes behind their steel covers. My previous life now was very much a fantasy dream world and faded slowly away while I was kept working at the pointless, exhausting exercises.
Governess remained unfailingly polite whenever she spoke to me, but her soft words belied an iron will. My existence in the hidden complex of cells was but a part of her life, albeit a large one, for Master employed her in other duties also. In the long hours of boredom, I wonde
