When Dave hoisted me up my sanity fled. Unyielding, cold metal met my back and my body went taught as a bow about to snap. My mind threatened to shatter, every nerve ending in my body vibrated in preparation for what was to come. Each strap fastened over my unwilling body peeled away a layer of my sense of self-worth, replacing it with fear, anguish, despair, and glass shattering in my skull. And then it began.
