Chapter Six
Irrigation
Lucy was meanwhile enjoying the hospitality of the silver mine. Trained as a work pony in Vermont and then getting a high-speed, advanced degree in torture and s****l abuse at the cloister in Bulgaria, she nevertheless did not expect the situation she now encountered in the snowy and barren mountains of Central Asia. Her new captors took her from her travel crate and appropriately freshened her up. They tied her hand and foot, installed a new and highly efficient gag that was packed into her sore mouth and wrapped her up on a rug. Lucy was then thrown over the back of a pack horse and taken to the home of her new masters, the Marbella family, who owned and operated silver mines. Of course, Lucy didn’t know that the Marbellas had, for decades, more or less supported
