Short Story Sunday: Under Her Key Part Three: The Test By the third morning, Lee had stopped waking in surprise. The device no longer announced itself with the same sharp sense of novelty. It had become part of the sequence of his day: wake, assess, clean, inspect, report. The routine should have made things easier. Instead, familiarity created a different problem. Lee had begun to count. Not openly. Not in any way he believed Mistress Tara could see. But the hours had taken