He hurried down the hallway. When he stood in the girl’s doorway he seemed out of breath? and looked defeated. ?Why are you still standing, ...hit face? Get down on your fucking knees right now.? With a sigh of exasperation and futility, Donald slowly collapsed to the floor and dropped his head to his chest. The regime of slavery was truly getting to him now. It had been a difficult path he’d chosen, living as a slave to his wife these past ten years, but now that her two. If the girl’s feet did not leave the lower step in time and move on up to the next one, she would hang most painfully by from her arms. That might be some relief for her aching legs and thighs but it was not something that could be maintained for too long. Moreover, the wheel would not be turning... and each girl had been given a set number of turns to achieve. Progress was recorded in a large glass hour-glass alongside each Treadmill. Each turn of the wheel triggered off a device which. Why it was refusing to answer your communications and what it is doing in the ass end of unregulated space was still a mystery to you, but quite frankly you were in no position to be picky about where you asked for assistance at that point. Suiting up in your Anti-Vacuum Armour (AVA), you redirected all remaining power to the few functioning thrusters and launched the ship towards the signal.As you approached, you were finally able to discern that the structure was in fact some form of complex. The changes we had made worked for today - would they work for tomorrow with the larger crowd?I went back to the office to do one more check to see if any information had changed and was disappointed that there was nothing new.After supper Ching Lee and I helped the night crew make the final changes that all of us had agreed on. Other than the normal night skeleton crew, all of us turned in early.At 4:30 AM all of us met at the local Bob Evans breakfast restaurant; there were almost a hundred.