I was shown to my room, and found it small but comfortable. There was an announcement for lunch, so I followed the crowd and we entered a big room where there were many naked women getting in line with trays. The lunch looked basic, but good. Some women were chained together by their collars, and holding hands. Suddenly everyone stood up. Ms. Henshaw had entered. Following their lead I also stood. Once she was served, we all sat back down, whereupon a bell was rung and everyone started to eat and chat to each other.
Everyone seemed friendly, especially since we all had a common reason to be there. I asked if anyone was from Pennsylvania and one woman said she thought there were several at the next table. I asked if I could move over there but was told no, and that I’d have to get there early to pick a table.
After lunch I was told to report to the barn. As I walked in, one of the farmhands said, “Howdy little filly. My name’s Zeke, and I can tell that just by looking at you, that you’re new here today.”
Since he was staring hard at my naked body, I blushed and nodded.
“That’s what I thought, so y’all better come with me.” Obediently, I followed him through a door into a small room. One wall of the room was a barred gate. Zeke beckoned me over to the gate and pointed out through the bars. “See that there sign way over at the other end of this here corral?”
“The sign that says ‘prize’ on it?” I asked.
“Yep… That’s the one. So what you gotta do is when this here gate opens, you run for that sign. If you manage to touch it, you get a prize.”
“That sounds kind of easy, Zeke. I’m not sure I understand.”
“Don’t you worry about it, Missy. It’ll be a few more minutes before the gate opens, but when it does, you just do what I said,” Zeke ordered me. And with that, he left me alone in that room. So I looked through the bars at the sign, and waited for the gate to open. I saw a few of the other ranch hands mosey up to the corral fence where they stood and waited. I gathered that the whole idea might be that they’d find amusement at me running naked and barefoot across the corral. But I’d signed those documents that said I’d obey, so I waited.
A few minutes went by, certainly less than five, when with a soft scrape of metal on metal, the gate swung open! Even though that was the signal that I’ve been waiting for, I stood frozen for a moment with surprise. But only for a moment. Then I started running as fast as I could. The moment I cleared the gate I heard a sound from behind me to my left. It sounded like the snort of some animal, combined with a creak of leather. Intent on reaching the sign, I didn’t bother to look back. I didn’t even glance when I realized that I was now hearing the pounding of hooves on the dirt.
Seconds later, there was a strange ‘swoosh’ sound and before I knew it, the loop of a rope settled around my torso, snugging up against my tummy and trapping my left and right arms at the sides of my torso. Practically simultaneously I heard Zeke cry out, “Yeehaw!” and the pressure of the rope slowed me from a run to a walk to a complete standstill! From the observing ranch hands I heard hoots and hollers of encouragement and congratulations, like ‘good one, Zeke!’ and ‘way to go!’ and ‘you got that filly right fast!’, making me realize that I was the filly that they were talking about, and that somehow Zeke had roped me!