Chapter Eight
When I return to my room I check on Ming. I open the door to ‘her’ closet and she is kneeling facing me as if she has spent the entire day anticipating my return. She smiles most submissively and asks to use my bathroom. It is then that I realize the door can only be opened from the outside and she has been imprisoned for hours.
Her chain is long enough to reach the facilities and a furtive peek through the door (which she does not close) reveals that she squats to urinate. The patch can either be pulled up or the flow streams through it or under it.
I announce that I will shower and point back to the closet. She obediently shuffles back but the disappointment of being dismissed shows.
It has been a long day. I intend after ablutions to relax and write. But the amazing to
