As had been done the previous day, three unmarked black semi trucks backed into the loading docks in the basement of the Estate. In the trailer of the first truck were the men selected form the yacht, the second held the women, and the third held the men and women marked as special handling and selected by Robert Carlyle.

In fact, Carlyle himself was on hand for this momentous occasion. After all, it was he who had leaked the information about the yacht party to the founding members of the Collectors, it was he who had gained control of Herbert Warner Industries after Herbert and his two sons were killed - intentionally of course - during the recruiting process, and it was he who had set up the sexually frustrated wives that he had been seducing over the last few years. He had a lot at stake in these trucks, but more importantly the opportunity to gloat and feel that sweet sense of self-satisfaction was just too hard to pass up.

The unloading and processing would be handled somewhat differently today. One of the trucks held men, and that lent an element of potential physicality and unpredictability that was not usually seen in women. Therefore, the men's truck would be unloaded first and the men taken to the processing area under double the usual guard, and then the women's truck would be unloaded and they would be processed, and finally the special handling truck would be unloaded and those individuals would be processed separately by gender as well.

Under the watchful eye of ten mercenaries, each carrying a machine gun, and under the supervision of a dozen male work slaves, the first trailer was opened. For security purposes, the people that had been taken off the yacht had been left bound and gagged with tape. Not only would this make the men easier to handle, it kept the snooty, high society snobs from running their mouths as soon as the trucks were opened and getting themselves killed for trying to take charge of a situation of which there was no taking charge for them. The men were herded from the trailer and into the loading area. Each was pushed or forced to his knees on the floor to await further instructions.

Unfortunately, it turned out that they had suffered two fatalities among the men during the trip. One man, it seemed, had an allergic reaction to something and gone into shock during the trip and died. In actuality, although no one actually cared about the cause of death, the man had died from an allergic reaction to the adhesive on the duct tape used to gag him. The other man had been battling a head cold and had been on decongestant medication at the time of the party. Sometime during the trip, his medication had worn off and his sinuses had congested again, causing him to suffocate to death. The bodies of the two men were unceremoniously dragged from the loading area to be discarded in the waste.

Although Robert Carlyle was in attendance for this event, the actual address to the slaves was still left to Jonathan Clark. Jonathan Clark, along with Josephine Hancock and Stephen Harrison, had been summoned to the loading area to greet the new recruits. He gave almost exactly the same speech to the men as he had given to the women the previous day. And then when the second truck was unloaded, he gave this set of women the same speech. It was direct and to the point, and Jonathan Clark was nothing if not direct and to the point.

The men were taken off the truck, the speech was given, and then the men were sent to processing. After that, the women were taken off of their truck, the speech was given again, and then they were taken to processing. The third truck was then opened, the bound, gagged and blindfolded men and women were led off the truck, they were given the speech even though they couldn't see who was speaking to them, and then they, too, were taken to processing.

As had been done the previous day, the numbers were also counted. After the final count was taken, there were forty-seven men and sixty women, but seven of the men and eight of the women counted were marked by Robert Carlyle as special instructions. The final total was one hundred nine people. Adding that to the two hundred fourteen women from yesterday, not including the X-classes, the one woman that had been shot for not complying with instructions to leave the trailer, and the blonde woman hanging on the frame in the entry area to the dormitories, and the final count to date for the Estate was three hundred twenty-three people. That was just over half of the expected number of slaves needed to properly populate the Estate.

The processing had to be staggered somewhat so that all the men finished before the women were taken through the process. First the men were taken to a holding area to be unbound and their gags removed, they were given strict instructions to keep their mouths shut and to follow the instructions they were given, then the men were taken through processing. They were each shaved, tattooed, inspected and documented, showered, and then housed. The women were also led into a holding area and their bonds were removed. Once the last group of men had gone through the shaving room, the first group of women were escorted into it, so the processing was continual and never missed a beat. The is process was again repeated for the group of women labeled for special handling, and then again for the men in special handling.

In just under three hours, one hundred nine men and women from aboard the yacht had been processed. Most of them had been housed in the same small cells as the women the previous day. The ones that had been housed in the dormitories were, of course, given all the same instructions as the female recruits were given the day before. Naturally, though, the wealthy and powerful people didn't care much for having instructions barked at them through bars in small windows, but they really had no choice in the matter.

The fifteen people, seven men and eight women, that had been marked special handling by Robert Carlyle were taken into special area of the basement, near the main dormitories, called the 'dark rooms.' The dark rooms were similar to the cells of the dorms in the aspect that they were each four foot cubes with a hose for water, a hole for waste and a heavy door to contain the people that were placed into these rooms. However, there were also several differences between the dark rooms and the regular cells. The first difference was that the dark room were located in the floor of the small room in which they were located.

A thick, heavy, soundproofed door led into a room twelve feet wide and forty feet long. The floor of this room was divided into three sections: Two sections, running the length of the room, were made up of the four foot wide trapdoor-style doors that opened into each small cell. The center section of the floor of the room was a four foot wide walkway that ran the length of the room between the cell door. When a person was to be put into a dark room, they were led down the center aisle between the trapdoors, a door was opened, the person was pushed into the room, and the door was closed on top of them. The heavy doors of each dark room cell were soundproofed, so communication between cells was not possible, nor could any occupant hear anything from the room outside. There were no windows in these doors and no food slot. An occupant of a dark room cell was fed when that person's door was opened individually and their food pan offered to the work slave to fill. The door was then closed to that person's cell and the next one opened and the process repeated. The dark rooms were specifically designed to literally keep the occupants in the dark. No sound could penetrate into or out of the rooms and there were no lights so the occupants could see nothing. The dark rooms were most frequently used to punish slaves that talked after lights out, but on this occasion, they were used to keep the husbands and wives, marked by Robert Carlyle as special handling, separated and secret from one another. That was how he wanted them kept until the big moment came for each of their surprises, so that is how they were kept.

As the new recruits were arriving in the three unmarked trucks, the women from the previous day's processing were fed breakfast. Each woman was served two strips of bacon, - real pork bacon - a helping of eggs, and two pieces of toast. Several of the women, the vegetarians among the recruits, complained that they did not eat meat or eggs and so the tin pans belonging to each of those women were emptied back into the food carts and pushed back through the slot under the cell door empty. Those women would go without breakfast on this day.

After breakfast had been served, the women were given an hour to eat, drink water and use the bathroom; or the pipe, as the case was. At ten o'clock, work slaves entered each of the dormitories housing the nearly three hundred women. Each dorm held one hundred twenty people, so the women from the previous day had been divided into two of the five dorms. Four work slaves entered the filled dorm and four entered the partially-filled dorm. Each pair of work slaves carried an interesting length of chain.

The chain that each pair of slaves carried was thin, but sturdy, and each was over sixty feet long. At one foot intervals along each chain, a steel collar was welded into the links. Thus, a steel collar formed the front of the chain, then a one foot section of thin sturdy chain was welded at one end to the back of the first collar and at the other end to the front of the next collar. And so the chain was made until, at last, the chain ended in a final steel collar. Each collar opened on a hinge, easily allowing slaves to be added or removed from the chain without much effort. When the collars were closed about a slave's neck, a simple locking mechanism kept the collars closed. The locks could be opened with a small metal key. Despite their delicate look, the chain and collars were quite capable of holding a man or woman, even under the most intense struggling.

The pairs of work slave uncoiled each chain and laid each one out neatly in a single line on the floor of each long dormitory room. One of the slaves in each room informed the women in the cells that they would now be taken out of their cells to begin their first day of formal training. The women in the cells were instructed to come forward and stand beside a collar in the chain as they were released from their cells. They were warned that any acts of noncompliance would be met with punishment. Each work slave carried a cattle prod on a loop on his belt; this helped to illustrate the point that disobedience would be frowned upon most harshly.

One at a time, each cell door was opened and the naked and shaved women crawled from their small cells. They stood as instructed by the work slaves next to a collar in each line of chain. The women from the cells located on the right side of the room stood next to the collars along the chain laid on the right side of the floor, and the women from the left side cells stood in line at the left chain.