Chapter Nineteen
The Uniform
Awareness came fuzzily.
My eyes snapped open within the confining helmet, but were met with only blackness and silence for I could not even here the rattling of my chains when I jerked my limbs against their restriction. I lay for the longest time, fully awake, and began to think of what it was they were going to do to me today. The Uniform! Oh God! What were they going to turn me into?!
At last the doors were opened, my hearing was returned and Leona entered my cell. She freed me quickly of the mattress chains, then my mouth leash was unlocked from its ring and I was roughly dragged from the kennel to stand on all fours just outside its door. Staring straight ahead, forced to do so by my collar and helmet, all I could see were two pairs of legs. One I knew
