Chapter Seven
The First Test
Jessica looked fearfully around the room, her heart pounding in her chest. Where before had stood the bathtub and other implements of her torture, now there was a trio of copper tubes, set up parallel to the ground and to each other. The two outside tubes were a couple feet apart from each other, and held aloft on posts at about waist level. The one between them was closer to the ground, set at perhaps mid-thigh. She saw that electrical wires led from each of the tubes to a box on the ground.
“You will get three tries to high-step to the other side, Princess,” her captor spoke, grinning as he led her to stand at one end of the tubes. “If you fail all three times, you return to the wheel.”
“High-step?” Jessica asked quietly, her voice a whimper, stepping for
