Chapter Eighteen
Preparations Before Uniformed
Gradually, over the next two weeks, I was allowed more and more freedom of movement. Leona came to my kennel each day in what I assume was the afternoon, and after releasing me, harshly coached me to rise from my bed and move around my new home, using my now-shortened limbs. The kennel was spacious enough for my Spartan needs, being, I suppose, some two metres wide, two high, and perhaps three metres in length. The walls floor and ceiling, I quickly discovered, were made of steel, thickly coated with a black, shiny rubber, with the exception of the end wall opposite the door. This appeared to be a large mirror behind a thick plastic sheet, and it too was backed by steel. Around the periphery, a series of very formidable rings had been set in
