Chapter Nine
Mobile Impalement
The next day arrived far too soon.
When I returned to awareness it was only to see the blackness of the sheet, while outside on my covering, the corrugated hoses moved slowly, contracting slightly and expanding when the air was forced through them, then withdrawn, forcing me to breathe. A bright, widow bar patterned shaft of sun light slanted onto my body and I felt its faint warmth, but could see nothing at all. Oh God! It wasn’t a nightmare that I’d awakened from ... it was definitely and horribly real!! I was hot and uncomfortable under the sheet, to say nothing of the fact that I ached in every part of my being.
“Ah! A good morning to you, my girl!” Frau Baxter’s voice whispered into my ears when she released the sheet over my head and appeared in my
