Training for the Infantalist Scene 29

The taggers would often cringe as they got closer to the back of their target, who themselves would cringe after being padded. Both would earn chuckles. The rules could change from time to time, but generally, it was the same. Sometimes there would be just one or two people who were it, sometimes there would be two teams, each one trying to tag the others. Either way, winners and losers were determined, and the losers would be punished while the winners would be given ‘rewards’, such as being fed bottles by the audience or allowed to play with toys. Alex hated this all. It was a long way to fall from practicing kickboxing and talking about books to playing with rattles and begging for diaper changes.