But the hands retreated and the silence returned once again.But the hands retreated and the silence returned once again. Now ALL she could hear was her heart pounding and her breath whistling through the stainless steel iron ring in her mouth and past her lips. Then, after a long wait, the fingers returned, this time to place the ball gag into the stainless steel ring inside her mouth, and then buckle it tightly behind her sweat soaked head, over her matted hair. When she had felt it approaching her mouth, she had ovaled her lips and tried to wrap them around the edges of the ball, but the straps drew the corners of her mouth back and prevented that entirely. The fingers moved upward on the back of her head which, like her back, faced upward toward the ceiling, not backward, and they found the buckle of her blindfold. Ten- derly they unbuckled the leather blindfold and lowered it from her eyes. She looked downward and saw the white mat and the bottom arc of one of the stainless steel rings in her field of vision. To the right side she could see a pair of large, obvi- ously male, bare feet, with leather pant legs extending up from them. She could see nothing else. The huge stainless steel "mounting ring" had shuddered as its attached, totally suspended and totally encased sweating, twenty year old female's body reacted to what its mind finally regis- tered and began to protest. LINDA WAS MOUNTED, SPLAYED OUT AND SPREADEAGLED, FACE DOWNWARD,  |