Chapter Eight
The Introduction Video
Jessica’s mind was a hazy web of exhaustion and misery, her legs trembling like a bowl of Jell-O, when her time at the wheel finally came to an end. She had long ago lost any semblance of an understanding of time, concentrating only on driving as hard as she could against the traces that bound her. Twice, the prod had caught her, stinging her harshly, though she took some satisfaction from the fact that she had managed to drive away from it after each blow, instead of collapsing as she had done previously. Her arduous journey to nowhere finally at an end, she could only dangle in the straps as her captor released her, gathering her limp body up into his arms and carrying her so easily.
She was barely conscious, sweat-soaked and bone-weary, as he set
