There's a real qualitative difference between the feeling of rope and the feeling of steel, Ariel informs me. Rope can be tight, restrictive, even painful, but it is never inflexible, rigid or just plain COLD the way steel is. Looks like Charlotte Elizabeth is finding out all about that, what with the sttel yoke bolted around her neck and contraining her wrists, and the cold steel leg irons binding her ankles!