Unknown - Captured by Ann

Dinner was, for all the unusualness of the setting, rather straightforward. Table conversation was bland and anonymous as we each shared a preference for not providing each other with too much in the way of biographical information. The attendants did not speak.

After dinner we were urged by the Administrator to go to the meeting room, as the candidates were to be brought before us. Our attendants led us to the meeting room and made sure that we were all seated comfortably in one of the stuffed armchairs. Then each of the attendants spread their capes in front of where we were seated and then knelt on these capes at our feet. The Administrator stepped to the center of the room and spoke.

"My friends" he said. "We are going to be bringing in our new candidates for review by you shortly. This is the first phase of their training. You will understand our objective shortly, but we can talk about it later."

As the Administrator finished speaking we all heard in the distance a very odd series of sounds. There were thumps, jangles, and even the sound of small bells. The noises, which I could not interpret, continued and seemed to increase in volume and proximity. Then, as the pair of doors to our room swung open, we saw the entrance that the candidates were making.

The candidates were divided to two groups and were on all fours, each group tethered together and pulling what looked like two chariots. The two men pulled a chariot with the red-haired trainer I first saw in the second building. The four women were likewise entrained and were pulling a chariot with the other trainer.

The chariot with the male candidates passed by me first. I noticed that the leather harnesses that passed over these candidates had in some places the small bells which accounted for the jingling noise I had heard. The candidates proceeded in front of me on all fours. I observed that their legs were encumbered by a special brace which kept their legs in a flexed position by tethering their ankles to the back of their thighs by a foot long strap. Their knees were covered with a thick pad. In this way they were unable to stand and could only proceed on their hands and knees. They also were impaled with a form of butt plug to which was fastened a streamer of leather strips. In effect and appearance, these were like horse or ponytails which were twitching back and forth with each stride.

Following this chariot was the one being pulled by the female candidates. Ann was in the second rank next to the other girl in her thirties. The two younger candidates were in the front. Like the men, the women were tethered together and wore the same type of leg braces which prevented them from standing. Each wore a type of headgear which was topped with feathered plumes, much as one might have imagined other ponies to have been decorated when they were paraded on display. Again like the men, the women were fitted with "tails" except that in the case of the women, the "tail" material was affixed to a small strap that connected two gleaming metal probes which had been inserted into each of the girl's anal and vaginal openings. The girls seemed to be proceeding a little gingerly as they towed their chariot toward the front of the room. I watched Ann closely as she strained a little against her burden and I observed that if she did not maintain her posture she ran the risk, owing to the profound size of her breasts, of scraping them along the ground as she crawled forward.

The two chariots were guided to corresponding resting places on each side of where the Administrator stood at the front of the room. I was quite surprised by what then ensued. Without warning I heard Ann let out a sharp yelp indicating obvious pain. I looked to see what it was that caused it, but noticed simply that Ann had fallen to one side and seemed to be clutching her abdomen. It was also becoming evident to all that this was not part of anyone's script. I rushed to Ann's side and saw that she was in serious agony.

At my insistence, we disentangled Ann from her accoutrements and drove her to the nearest hospital, which was in Lake Placid. There Ann was examined and then given some medicine to relieve her pain, which was waxing and waning. Within a few hours the diagnosis of kidney stones had been made. After getting the recommendations from the local staff and after conferring with my internist as well as a telephone consultation with Justine, we decided to transfer Ann to New York Hospital for treatment where, it was hoped, the kidney stones would be shattered by the focused delivery of sound waves in a relatively new device. If that did not work, surgery would be the alternative.

Ann's stay at New York Hospital was brief and successful. Within 36 hours Ann had been treated, the stones were shattered and passed, and Ann was given some guidance on how she could avoid, or at least minimize the chance of recurrence. I was delighted when Ann's doctor told us that Ann would be released from the hospital after his visit the next morning (Saturday) at around 7:00 a.m.

I was sitting next to Ann's bed in the private room I had arranged for her later that Friday afternoon when we took a moment to reflect on the whirlwind events of the past few days.

"I'm glad that you are feeling better now, I was really upset when I saw how much pain you were in." I said.

"I never experienced anything like that" Ann added. "Well I guess we'll go back to Davenport" she continued.

"I don't think so" I said. "I think the impetus of the moment has passed and I'd just as soon we left that part alone" I concluded.

Ann's gaze assured me that my preference in that regard sat well with her too.

Hospital Interlude

Towards the end of the day, one of the residents appeared at the door to Ann's room with a crew of four medical students in tow.

"Glad to see that you're doing much better" he said as he flipped through Ann's chart. "If you don't mind, I'd like to give these second-year students a chance to practice some of their physical examination skills."

"Why not?" Ann said, "but I want my husband to stay."

The resident nodded to the first student, a young asian woman who first closed the door to the room and then approached Ann. With seeming competence, she took Ann's blood pressure, examined her eyes, ears and throat, listened to her heart and lungs and palpated her abdomen. The whole procedure took about five minutes and the resident only interjected a few comments along the way.

The second student, a mature looking young man was just slightly less proficient, which was evident in his need to reinflate the blood pressure cuff several times before he was satisfied that he had an accurate reading.

Disaster, of sorts, struck for the third student. This doctor-in-training was a young looking male who did not project any sense of confidence. At the point where he stepped behind where Ann was seated in bed, to listen to her lungs with his stethoscope, he, like the others before him, unfastened the draw string at the top of Ann's hospital issue nightgown so that he would have access to her back. Unlike what had preceded him, in his clumsiness he knocked the gown off her shoulders, so that it fell around her waist, leaving Ann seated there with her bare breasts exposed to the entire group. Ann made no move to adjust her situation, and as I surveyed the room, it was obvious to me that all took notice of Ann's impressive dimensions. The young student was mortified by his gaffe and succeeded only in making things worse as he reached around to lift up the fallen nightgown and managed only to quite conspicuously seem to grab Ann's left breast. I recognized a familiar glint in Ann's eyes and I knew that her exhibitionist tendencies were being stimulated by her predicament.

Finally, the young student managed to compose himself and complete his examination. The fourth student, a young woman, managed also to professionally complete the routine exam.