So I'm wondering, how do you prepare your canes for use? Do you soak? If so, for how long? Where do you keep yours stored?
Knowing you're going to experience such a heavy discipline session, how do you feel?
Miss, we've been using some oil-soaked-and-poly-coated canes that don't dry out.
As for how I feel, I feel a pleasant sense of fate. A little knot of fear and a warm glow. I'm always reminded of this bit from 1984:
It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. ... He thought again of the cellars of the Ministry of Love. It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future time, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, willful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.
Respectfully,
Étienne