Chapter Sixteen
Training, Torment & Sleep
“Excellent!” Governess exclaimed some minutes later, her voice laden with satisfaction. “Now to connect the rowing arms and you’ll be almost ready to begin exercising.”
I couldn’t see her do it when she raised one of the telescoping rods with one hand and with the other pulled the ‘oar’ as close to me as it would travel, then I felt the vibration when it was locked onto the right side ring of my collar. She continued holding the oar close and locked the other rod to its opposite side, thus forming a ‘V’ between my neck and their mounting points on the oar. It pulled me forward in accordance with the demand of its heavy springs, bending my upper body at the waist against the tension of the various garters that normally kept me in an erect posture
