I need you to think about somebody. Shut your eyes if it helps — though that might make studying the remainder of this story tough. Image this individual clearly in your thoughts’s eye. It could possibly be anybody: your spouse, an ex-boyfriend, the neighbour subsequent door, or somebody you’ve got solely seen in passing. Somebody you’re keen on, or somebody you hate. Perhaps, for the narcissists, it is your self you’ll be able to see.
Visualise their peak and construct. Are they towering and broad-shouldered or petite with a fragile body? Take into consideration their pores and skin — is it honest, darkish, freckled, or tanned? Is it clean and flawless, or are there faint laughter traces across the eyes?
Now, deal with their face. Actually image them in your thoughts. What color are their eyes? Is their nostril broad or slender? How do their eyebrows seem? How do their feelings play out throughout their face when they’re shocked? What delicate indicators do they provide away when they’re attempting to carry in amusing at a severe second?
Image their hair, the way it falls throughout their face, whether or not it’s lengthy, brief, curly, straight — and even all gone. Is it fiery pink, soiled blonde, chestnut brown or midnight black? Think about its color in several lights, the way it shimmers within the solar, its deep richness, or the flecks of gray that reveal an internal knowledge.
Think about their fashion and the way they current themselves to the world. Do they love vibrant colors and a flamboyant fashion, or do they like understated magnificence? Take into consideration the textures and colors they may select; smooth, flowing materials, or tight tailoring that hugs the physique. Think about them in an outfit that you just suppose they’d love.
Think about them talking to you. How does their voice sound in a crowded room, or in a quiet, intimate dialog, and the way does it change when they’re excited or indignant? Is the tone of their voice low and tough, or a rippling soprano? Is their accent crisp and well-spoken from their time at boarding faculty, or is it tough and prepared, stuffed with slang and swearing? Is their speech peppered with laughter, or do they converse with considerate pauses? Think about the distinctive phrases or phrases they use, which make their speech their very own.
Take into consideration the best way they transfer, their gestures, their distinctive stroll. Visualise the best way they may wave their arms whereas explaining one thing passionately, and picture their posture when relaxed or how they may stand when they’re tense. Image them in movement — strolling, dancing, or swimming within the sea.
Now, maintain this picture of them in your thoughts. They’re greater than only a visible picture; they’re an actual, complicated individual with ideas, wishes and feelings, and now they exist in an ideal likeness in your ideas.
Hold this individual in your head, and picture them modified. On the mercy of one other, unable to withstand or disobey — reworked from the individual you understand right into a physique to be watched, to be touched, for use. In your creativeness, their independence and vitality are gone, changed with pure helplessness and obedience.
They’ve change into a captive, and this story is about them.
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Within the dimly lit room, the captive stood certain, a chilling sense of vulnerability washing over them. Their wrists have been held above their head, tightly secured to a sturdy wood body, the coarse ropes biting into their pores and skin with each futile twist and switch. Their ankles have been additionally certain to the body, every one tied to a decrease nook, their legs held aside in order that they have been left in a stretched, uncomfortable place. The ropes have been unyielding, limiting their motion to undignified writhing motions throughout unsuccessful makes an attempt to loosen the bonds. The air appeared thick with the scent of worry, and the one sounds have been their very own shallow breaths and the distant creaks of the outdated constructing. Shadows danced round them, including to their rising sense of dread. Regardless of their efforts, the ties held agency, a relentless reminder of their defencelessness.
The captive thought again over the past half hour. “How did I let this occur?” they panicked, “I ought to have shouted, to have backed out. Why am I right here?!”. However now it was too late, and so they have been underneath their captor’s management.
The occasions of earlier that night already appeared like a distant reminiscence. The captive had attended the provided deal with as organized, down a aspect road in part of city that they had thought they knew effectively. The receptionist had welcomed them, and brought their papers and charge. “Are you positive you need to go forward with this?”, rhey had requested. “It may be fairly intense.” The captive had nodded firmly, jaw set agency, so the receptionist had shrugged and waved them down the hall. “I stay up for seeing you later then”, that they had mentioned with a smile they tried to cover from their face.
The receptionist had pointed in the direction of a distant door, which led right into a sparsely furnished room, by which a solitary chair stood on the tiled flooring. Lounging on the chair sat a bored trying determine, who the captive would quickly come to know and obey. The seated particular person exuded a peaceful authority that appeared to seep into the very partitions of the room. The captive had stood nervously in a centre of the room, ready for them to talk.
“You understand why you are right here,” the captor had mentioned easily, nearly disinterested, as that they had issued the command. “Take your garments off.” There was no malice of their tone, solely an unwavering expectation of obedience.
With a nervous swallow, the captive had accomplished as they have been requested, the material sliding towards their pores and skin because it dropped to the ground. Trousers and prime, then sneakers and socks have been eliminated shortly. They’d paused when solely their underwear remained, a silent plea for some shred of dignity, however the captor was unmoved. “Proceed,” that they had commanded, and the captive obeyed. Shoulders hunched and arms masking their groin to cowl their nakedness, the captive had stood alone because the captor sucked air in by their tooth, rocking again of their chair to evaluate their prey.
Rising from the chair, the captor had approached with a size of rope, transferring with a practiced ease to bind the captive’s arms collectively in entrance of them. The captive’s coronary heart thudded of their chest as they held their wrists collectively, not capable of cowl their bare physique, ready for the captor to finish their work. The captor had then taken an extended rope and connected it securely to the wrist bindings earlier than giving it a apply tug. The captive had felt their arms pulled ahead, their shoulders complaining on the sudden jerk; they realised that they might now be pulled on this leash wherever the captor desired.
The captor had then crouched, utilizing extra rope to wrap every ankle with a cosy coil, every tough loop urgent into the smooth pores and skin beneath. With professional fashion, the captor had made positive that every ankle was encircled with an equal variety of turns, the symmetry and accuracy pleasing them. As soon as happy with the binding on every ankle, a smaller, thinner size of rope — barely greater than string — had been produced. This piece was used to attach the 2 ankle wraps, threaded between them with precision to attract the legs in shut.
The captor had then walked forwards, pulling the rope taut, forcing the captive to observe them, again out of the room and into the hall. Within the distance, the captive noticed the receptionist, who had turned their head in the direction of the noise and smiled on the scene.
The ankle restraints had allowed the captive solely minimal, shuffling actions. Every try to take a step was met with the unyielding resistance of the brief string linking their ft collectively, forcing them into a clumsy, quick-stepped gait. Led like a canine on a lead, that they had stumbled to maintain tempo, every step a wrestle towards the constricting bonds and their very own rising panic. The sound of the rope stretching and rubbing towards itself accompanied their each transfer, and their ft slapped loudly on the chilly tile flooring.
The captor was unfazed by the captive’s plight and had pulled the rope sharply, main them deeper into the constructing by unknown rooms and hallways. The cool air had flowed across the captive’s bare type, sending a chill deep into their physique and soul. They felt a shiver unfold down their backbone as they have been pulled briskly alongside, goosebumps prickling on their pores and skin.
Reaching their vacation spot, the captor had untied the string that joined the captive’s ankles, however the captive had felt no consolation on this act, their eyes remaining broad with a mixture of worry and anticipation. The captive appeared across the huge room into which that they had been led. Thick curtains stretched from flooring to ceiling and coated one wall, and the ceiling was nearly too excessive to see. The one furnishings within the room was an oblong wood body, in regards to the dimension and form of a giant mattress turned on its finish. The captor had led the captive to the body, positioning them straight between the stark pillars of wooden, and going through them in the direction of the curtain-draped wall. The captor had pulled the captives legs aside earlier than re-securing every ankle to the decrease corners of the body.
Subsequent, the captor had turned their consideration to the captive’s wrists. The captive had realised that the lengthy rope was greater than a leash – with a fast motion, the captor had flicked the rope excessive bar of the body, the place it looped across the wooden earlier than falling down behind the captive. Pulling the rope tight, the captor had pressured the captive to lift their arms, with their arms stretched above their head.
And now right here the captive discovered themselves, fully immobilized, on the mercy of the captor who had stepped again to survey their work. The captive’s physique was displayed like a canvas, stretched out and defenceless. The room was silent, save for the captive’s shallow breaths, because the captor’s eyes lingered over them, considering their subsequent transfer.
With deliberate and unsettling calmness, the captor approached the captive, holding a tangle of leather-based straps and shiny rubber of their hand. The captive’s eyes widened as they recognised the ball gag. The captor drew in nearer, and the captive felt their breath on their face. Nonetheless nearer the captor leant in, earlier than urgent their lips to the captive’s to kiss them. Stunned at this act, unsure of what the captor anticipated, the captive discovered themselves kissing again, their head tilting to the aspect for an extended second as they calmly touched tongues. The captor pulled again, a smirk on their face. With the captive’s lips nonetheless parted from the kiss, the captor all of the sudden raised their hand and pushed the sleek black ball of the gag into the captive’s mouth, in order that it slipped behind their tooth. As soon as firmly inside, the captor started the method of fastening the straps, the gentleness of the kiss changed with tightening leather-based. The captive felt a surge of adrenaline course by their physique, their eyes broad and coronary heart pounding, however with a brand new sense of need for the captor’s consideration.
The primary straps have been pulled tightly throughout the captive’s cheeks, buckling securely behind their head. Two extra straps stretching upwards throughout their face, reaching diagonally and partially obscuring their imaginative and prescient as the skinny leather-based strips handed in entrance of their eyes. The crisscross of straps joined collectively between their eyebrows, from the place a single strap prolonged up and over the crown of the captive’s head earlier than descending on the again to satisfy the horizontal bands. All straps locked quick to one another behind the top to make sure that the gag was held firmly in place. The captive grunted because the straps have been adjusted, their speech now restricted to unintelligible noises.
A remaining strap stretched across the jaw and buckled underneath the chin to finish the harness, holding the captive’s tongue towards the ball of their mouth and rendering them successfully mute. The captor adjusted the straps and buckles to a cosy match, guaranteeing no chance of dislodging the gag, regardless of how a lot the captive would possibly wrestle. The captive, now disadvantaged of their voice, felt themselves falling into helplessness and isolation. Out of the blue, brutally, the captor reached as much as the captive’s chest to pinch their nipple, twisting the flesh as they did so. A quick jolt of ache unfold by their physique earlier than the captor let go. “You are mine now,” they whispered within the captive’s ear.
Ending their changes, the captor reached as much as the ball now held securely within the captive’s mouth. Connected to the gag, hidden from preliminary view, was a small inflation machine. The captive’s eyes grew with terror because the captor held the tubing and inflation bulb as much as their eye-level to show how the equipment labored.
One, two, three presses of the bulb precipitated the gag to begin to swell. Because the inflation balloon deep contained in the captive’s mouth expanded, it pressed down on their tongue, filling the cavity of their mouth. The stress elevated relentlessly, pushing towards the insides of their cheeks, rendering any try at speech unattainable. The captive may really feel the unyielding stress of the increasing balloon, its presence turning into an increasing number of intrusive because it grew. The feeling was not simply silencing however deeply oppressive, a bodily manifestation of their full lack of management.
Because the gag was inflated, the captive’s respiration turned laboured and frantic. Every breath was a wrestle, the air dashing out and in by their nostril with a harsh, raspy sound. Their chest rose and fell quickly, the motion pronounced and determined, their physique in a state of panic, attempting to attract in as a lot air as attainable.
The inflation course of was gradual and deliberate, every pump of the captor’s hand lowering the captive’s capacity to make any coherent sound, the captor relishing the rising sense of discomfort evident within the captive’s eyes. As soon as happy with the inflation, the captor stepped again to watch their handiwork, leaving the captive in a state of utter subjugation, silenced by the oppressive drive of the inflated gag.
The captive thoughts raced with worry and confusion. They felt overwhelmed, the mixture of the tight restraints and the inflated gag filling their mouth making a suffocating sense of powerlessness and misery. The sound of their very own strained respiration echoed of their ears.
The captor’s voice reduce by the tense air. “Decelerate, relax. Give attention to taking deeper and slower breaths, otherwise you’ll by no means get by the scene.” The phrases, meant to be calming, felt like an unattainable demand within the captive’s heightened state of tension. Nonetheless, they nodded and tried to conform, drawing in longer, extra managed breaths. It was a wrestle; their breaths have been nonetheless quick and noisy, every inhale and exhale a loud, trembling affair. The ropes that certain them, the gag that stuffed their mouth, and their racing coronary heart made any sense of calm unattainable. The captive managed to scale back the depth of their respiration a bit, however the quick, noisy rhythm continued.
The captive’s hopes for a swift launch sank additional because the captor produced two extra ropes. Every rope was meticulously looped across the captive’s knees, and the captive watched with a rising sense of dread, their coronary heart pounding of their chest, because the captor methodically secured the opposite ends of the ropes to the outer edges of the body. With gradual precision, the captor started to drag on the ropes, progressively forcing the captive’s knees to show outward. The motion was relentless, stretching the captive’s legs additional aside and straining their muscle tissues uncomfortably. The feeling was each bodily taxing and psychologically daunting, because the captive realized the extent of their incapacity. The captor solely stopped when the ropes have been taut, the captive’s legs now held in a painfully broad place. The captor adjusted and tightened the knots with a degree of care that contrasted starkly with the cruelty of the act. The captive may really feel the stress on their knees, a relentless and uncomfortable reminder of their hopeless and uncovered state.
With the captive’s limbs now totally restrained and stretched, the captor took one other step again. The room was silent aside from the captive’s laboured respiration, muffled by the inflated gag, and the faint creaking of the strained ropes. The captive had nowhere to cover, extra immobilized than ever, their physique and can equally ensnared by the captor’s cautious preparations. One other surprising kiss adopted, the captor bending low to teasingly press their lips to the captive’s stomach. Need surged as soon as extra by their physique, and so they now had no selection however to belief their captor and give up to their destiny.
The captor, observing the captive’s wide-eyed gaze, produced a tight-fitting leather-based blindfold from their pocket, its floor clean and unyielding. The captive’s eyes flickered with the final glimpses of their environment earlier than the captor slipped the blindfold underneath the diagonal straps of the gag and into place. With a practiced movement, the captor stretched the blindfold over the captive’s eyes, urgent the leather-based towards their pores and skin. The blindfold felt heat from the warmth of the captor’s pocket. The match was comfortable, contouring intently to the form of their face, and the blindfold plunged them into darkness. The feeling was claustrophobic, the leather-based urgent towards their eyelids, denying them even the faintest trace of sunshine. The captor adjusted the blindfold, guaranteeing that it sat completely with no likelihood for slippage. The strap was pulled tight across the again of the captive’s head, nestling securely underneath the straps of the gag harness, enveloping the captive in a world devoid of sight, speech, and freedom. A tiny, involuntary whimper escaped from the captive’s throat as their sense of isolation turned full.
With their imaginative and prescient obliterated, the captive’s different senses heightened, making them aware of the sounds and smells of the room, but unable to discern something about their captor’s subsequent transfer. They heard footsteps because the captor walked about, checking their work and adjusting ropes. Lastly happy, the captor stood in entrance of the body and spoke, their tone carrying a mockingly cheerful edge.
“Smile for the digital camera,” they taunted. The phrases struck the captive with a wave of worry, their lack of ability to conform made all of the extra irritating by the gag that stuffed their mouth, stifling any type of expression.
Blindfolded, the captive noticed no flash, no trace of sunshine to point {a photograph} being taken. But, the distinctive sound of an old style Polaroid digital camera whirring to life was unmistakable. The mechanical noise of the digital camera spitting out a photograph stuffed the room, their predicament being captured without end within the frozen image.
Trapped in darkness, the captive may solely think about the shot the captor had taken. Their thoughts raced with questions. Why was the captor doing this? Would the photograph be added to some scrapbook of victims, accessible for anybody to flick by? Maybe the captor saved them as private trophies, or used them for blackmail. Regardless of the cause, a everlasting report of their disgrace had now been made, lasting proof that the captive could not deny. The thought was deeply unsettling, the psychological torment including to their bodily constraints. The sound of the {photograph} being fanned forwards and backwards stuffed the room because the captor developed the shot.
The captor’s voice, regular and ominous, broke the tense silence that enveloped the room. “It is time to start the present,” they introduced, their tone laced with anticipation. The captive, certain and blindfolded, tensed on the phrases, a wave of worry washing over them.
“You’ve got been the star of our personal personal efficiency,” the captor continued, transferring throughout the room. “However now, it is time to share you.” Straining their ears, the captive heard a distant murmur of voices and the fact of the scenario set in. They weren’t simply on the mercy of their captor, however about to be exhibited to an unknown viewers. A sudden rustling sound broke the heavy silence — the distinct sound of a curtain being drawn again, a sound that despatched a shiver down their backbone. The captive’s coronary heart raced. On this second, the captive realized the true extent of their captor’s management, the depth of their very own desperation, and their complete debasement. The notion of being a part of a ‘present’, an exhibit on show, was each terrifying and dehumanising, a merciless twist of their already dire predicament.