Chapter Ten
Mine
Lucy was adapting to the routine at the mine. She worked for sometimes as much as twenty hours a day and slept the rest of the time in the barred cubicle in the cave. There were other women in similar confinement in the mine, but no one talked or tried to communicate with her and she was pretty sure that all of the workers were like her and all were also probably gagged most of the time. It was a cold winter and eventually it seemed like most of the mining operations, such as they were, had stopped. When this happened, those who were the actual miners were locked up and provided with minimal maintenance. The ponies in transport service did less work because there was less debris to carry down the mountain and even fewer supplies to take up. Still, discipline had to be ma
