“A big, powerful man chained, made helpless. She’d seen boys poke at a chained bear – a beast they’d run screaming from were it free to do as it would. Little boys – and weak men – fancied themselves brave in the face of such helplessness. It made them giddy with false power. And they were apt to wield that power in terrible and cruel ways. Had such a thing been done to her Caliban?”
