Chapter Twenty-two
A Change of Status
Upon our return to the town house, I was once more confined to my cell and incredible state of bondage and spent many tearful hours straining in futility at my leash. Governess suspended and fed me as she had the day before, then left me that way for the night, staring out through the bars of my cage at the unreachable cement wall far beyond. Since then I’ve only been taken out two other times and have no idea of the passage of time between those occasions, other than that they were very far apart and I was never out Governess’ or Master’s comprehensive and cruelly restricting control. I’ve never really had a chance to experience the things that most people take for granted in their lives, but desperately wanted to be allowed to, and so, gagged, deaf
