Chapter Five
What the Night Brought
They ate from bowls placed before them in their stalls. Meat, potatoes, beans. It didnt taste all that bad to starving women. The fact that they didnt have use of their hands, nor were there utensils to eat with would have made the meal embarrassing under most circumstances, but, thankfully, no one watched as they bowed their heads and ate from the bowls using their lips and tongues like the animals theyd become. All three were famished enough not to protest this absurd treatment. In fact, from where they sat cowering in the stalls they could hear laughter coming from the far end of the stable where the trainers were apparently eating their dinner.
It was well into the night, after the food dishes were removed, the lights were doused and they lay a
