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Kateâs vision swam into focus. She was kneeling on a floor of cold, polished black marble. The shadows of the massive, vaulted dungeon danced in the flickering light of iron sconces. All around her, chained to the stone pillars, were women. They were stripped of their dignity, their silk gowns and linen dresses torn to rags, exposing pale, shivering shoulders and heaving chests.