[Suggested song for this chapter – Wicked Game by Chris Isaak]
The maid took Delphi's jilbab, headscarf, veil, and boots, leaving her barefoot in her combat uniform, and weaponless of course.
Delphi's eyes darted quickly around the room, taking in the contents and their locations, and assessing everything as a potential weapon.
The cell looked like she imagined a bedroom in a high-end brothel might look. Plush carpets, pink walls, pink satin sheets on a huge circular canopy bed that appeared to be built so that the posts attached to the floor and the ceiling.
For what purposes a bed needed to be screwed to the floor and roof, she could only imagine.
The bedposts included manacles, and manacles dangled on chains from the ceiling above the centre of the bed.
An array of 'implements' hung on the wall in a long glass cabinet. Whips, ropes, blindfolds… sadly, it reminded Delphi of Lili's tongue-in-cheek selections for her charm bracelet.