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The Contessa smiled in pleasure. They could hear her words echo in the strairway as she left the dungeon for her chambers, "You will hang in chains all night, my animals. Get some rest, for all your tomorrows will be even harder. First light, you will be whipped and tortured once more in the courtyard. Then you will be taken to the stables to begin your new and permanent lives as my ponygirls. You will be kept bridled, bitted and tailed. The only sound you will be allowed to make are the neighs of horses. And best of all you will be harnessed and pull my coach whenever the mood strikes me."
They hung there all night, aching. The last vestiges of their humanity were gone by dawn.
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