>>1640449I awoke in a daze. My head was spinning, and my body reacted sluggishly to my mind’s commands. I looked around bleary-eyed, only to see unfamiliar surroundings. Startled, I hastened to survey what I could. I soon discerned that I was in a room, or just as much a capsule, within a larger room. Florescent lights hummed and flickered above me, granting small and localized reprieves from the enveloping shadow. My bed too, was completely unfamiliar though comfortable, and commodious. The austere room bore no other furnishings but for a small table by the bed without so much as a chair for accompaniment.
My movement alerted me to the fact that even my clothes were another’s. I hadn’t worn a sailor uniform since back in middle school, and I could feel that whoever had changed my clothes did not even have the decency to give a maiden her underwear – at least, I hoped I was still a maiden.
My enclosure appeared to be Plexiglas bowed outward in all directions like some kind of glorified hamster ball. I spied a small opening on one of the sides that appeared just large enough to slip though. I walked over to it, noticing the feel of my unrestrained breasts swaying rhythmically with each step, as my nipples glided across the fabric of my shirt, and each time my legs parted, I could feel the cool air to waft up to the naked skin hidden just out of view by my brief skirt.
I grabbed on to the small opening in the wall hoping that I could pull myself up, but my leverage was unworkable. I dangled helplessly for a few seconds before my hands gave out and I fell back to the ground. Even if I could pull myself up, I realized, squeezing through the hole would have been another impossible obstacle.
