Chapter Forty-two
Dual Hard Labour, Punishment
And Partnership
It was terrible!
The new rules governed every aspect of our lives with minute, exacting control, and the punishments we would receive, over and above our already incredible imprisonment, were awful to even just think about! Both Isabella and I read through the document time after time and kept coming back to the section that concerned our body jewellery. Oh, God! Hadn’t they done enough to us already? It appeared that they hadn’t, and there were definite plans for doing more piercings, and then adding yet more articles of controlling jewellery! With this terrible fear of the piercing needle in the backs of our minds, we were too frightened to ask Babs when the next procedures were to take place, for she might decide to do
