The Setup
Laura Lake and her junior assistant, Johnny Jordan were investigative reporters for the Metro Star News published in St. Louis. They were now on assignment visiting the small Mid-Eastern country of Arabica under the premise of doing some investigative reporting on a large scale illegal international drug producing factory, located in the remote city of Mosambic. In reality, they were really trying to find the center and expose the leaders of the suspected slave trading activity in that area of Arabica which had ties back to a business in the St. Louis metropolitan area where the newspaper was published.
They thought that a specific desert tribe was involved in this international slave trading operation and that was it was led by a local Chief. He, in turn, was suspected of being in direct control of an international Mafia-type organization that was the leader in the world wide slave trading business. That group's leaders were aware of the two reporter's presence in the country and their research into the century's old, slave trading operation, rumored to be centered in this rather remote section of the country. The Mafia-type leaders therefore had the local Chief of the group of the nomadic tribesmen set a trap for the two reporters. Through paid informants, the Chief had several clues dropped to Laura and Johnny concerning the location of a remote desert castle, which was supposedly involved in, large scale, illegal drug production.
Laura and Johnny took the bait after hearing these planted stories and played right into the hands of the Chief by actually hiring two guides to take them to an abandoned outpost somewhere near the desert fortress to monitor the traffic coming and going to the area. The two guides were also part of the scam set up by the Chief involved in the slave training operation. Since the guides had agreed to camp out a few days with them at this abandoned outpost, Laura and Johnny had checked out of their hotel in Mosambic and took all their baggage with them on the half day trip of 150 miles, across the desert.
After being driven to the remote outpost in a large SUV by the two guides, Laura and Johnny were quickly captured by a group of the tribesmen in a staged hijacking. When the two reporters walked to the abandoned building that was once an outpost, several of the local tribesmen jumped the two guides and acted as if they knocked then unconscious while surrounding Laura and Johnny near the abandoned building where the men were hiding. The two were taken away in the same SUV, leaving the guides behind to give the impression they were left to die.
They were then driven to the castle that was really a heavily armed large fortress just a few miles away. The so called castle was complete with high surrounding walls, watch towers, and manned by armed guards. Before they entered the so called fortress, Laura and Johnny were blindfolded. They were, in turn, quickly taken to a large room inside the castle before their blindfolds were removed and they found themselves with about ten natives, five women and five men. The women were dressed in their unique silken garb, similar to what one would have found in a Middle Eastern country of centuries past. In the case of the men, the garb was more like something one would see in a bad pirate movie.
The women's clothing, however, consisted of sexy Harem-type outfits without an overabundance material! They all wore transparent silken blouses and baggy silken pants with fancy brassier-type tops and panty briefs underneath the silk. They all wore satin pumps with extra-high heels and turned up needle toes together with matching satin six inch wide belts with large silver buckles. The shoe heel styles varied from stiletto and spike to French-curved. The five all wore the same basic clothing styles with some variations including different materials and color combinations that matched their shoes and belts.
Laura was quickly taken to one room, off the main great room, with five female members of the group while the five male members took Johnny to another adjoining room. When Johnny re-entered the great room fifteen minutes later, he was dressed in the same type of outfit as the native male members of the group. It consisted of skin tight trousers made of black leather with wide cuffs worn over high black leather boots, a white front buttoning silk shirt, and a wide black leather belt with a large silver buckle. He was led to the center of the room and bound standing with his arms tied behind a large pillar facing a small platform also near the center of the large room. A leather muffle gag maintained his silence.
After about ten more minutes, Laura was also led from her dressing room wearing a very unique outfit that had similarities to, but were different from, the costumes of the female members of the group. It consisted of, almost transparent, bulky white silk harem pants with legs that came to her ankles. Underneath the pants and clearly visible, was a white leather bikini bottom. The top portion of the outfit consisted of the same white silken material as the pants, but in the form of a loose fitting, back buttoning long sleeved blouse. A six inch wide red satin belt with a large satin covered buckle was cinched at her waist to the point that it acted almost like a mini-corset by reducing her already slim waist by almost two inches down to twenty five inches. Flashy, silver, upper arm bands, rings, and long silver ear rings were other prominent features of Laura's costume together with some rather exotic makeup. The transparent-like blouse had other unique features. It had two perfectly placed vertical slits in front that allowed both of her thrusting, bra-like breast cups to fully protrude forward!
The bra-like halter was made with two red kid leather circularly stitched, extremely pointed, reinforced, cone cups connected by a series of small reinforced, adjustable, white leather straps around her upper body as well a neck strap that was connected to the top part of each cup base. Sharp pointed, inch and a half long, silver cone-like ornaments, tapering into sharp bullet shapes at their very tips, adorned the extremely tight fitting bra-like cup tips, further adding to the extreme sensual look of the upper portion of her bazaar outfit.
The absolutely most stunning part of Laura's costume, however, was a pair of red satin covered, open sided T-strap pumps with stiletto heels, five and a half inches in height! They forced her feet into highly arched positions and stretched the muscles at the front of her ankles and insteps, bending them to new limits. The extremely needle pointed toes were made with sharp pointed silver tips very similar to the ones on her bra-like cups. They did, however have small vertical holes through them near the very end of the metal tips. The T-strap shoes had a tiny hasp-like locking mechanism where they buckled to the closed heel on the inside of each shoe. Small, brightly polished silver luggage-type padlocks insured that the shoes would remain on until she or someone had the proper keys! As Laura was lead out from the side room, those padlocks reflected the room light and added to the erotic scene!
Laura's High Heel Background
Laura was use to wearing high heels for many years. She was only fifteen when she got her first pair of four inch spike heels in the late eighties, just as they were going out of style for the second time since the mid-sixties. In recent years after joining the newspaper, it had become her trademark to wear extra-high heels around the office and on assignment, no matter what the fashion trend was during a particular season. She therefore had amassed over the years approximately one hundred and fifty pair of custom ordered non platform shoes with extra-high spike or stiletto heels. She hated platform shoes and vowed never to wear them as they were so ugly in her mind.
Laura had come to the newspaper after graduating from journalism school and entered as a novice beat reporter in 1996. She had worked her way up in the last eight years to become the lead investigative reporter on the large and influential Metro Star News which prided itself on being the flagship newspaper in the Midwest. Laura had several other recent assignments with the newspaper and successfully investigated and broke exposés uncovering political corruption in the St. Louis area, but this was her first overseas assignment since there appeared to be some local connections involved in the international slave training operation.
Since stiletto and spike heels had gone out of style about the time she was old enough to wear them, Laura had to special order them from mail order houses since they were generally not available in stores. She had looked forward to wearing high spike heels for several years in her early teens, so she felt cheated when they faded from the fashion scene just as she was old enough to get her first pair.
Laura therefore had ordered, the highest non-platform heels available from mail order catalogs at that time, to make up for the fact that they were no longer in style. Most of her newer shoes were pumps in all colors and leathers and had 4-3/4 inch spike or stiletto heels that showed off her fairly small, size 6-1/2 feet! She also had some 4 inch spike heels from high school and college days that she rarely wore in recent years. The 4-3/4 inch heels were the height that she now most frequently wore to the office and other occasions.
However, she had recently ordered and received a pair of black patent opera pumps with full five inch heels when measured, perpendicularly from the heel seat to the floor. This is the correct measurement type used by shoemakers. She wore these black pumps with her nicest, form fitted, business suit, for the photo shoot needed for her "image shot" update. An "image shot" is currently used by all major newspapers usually showing a "bust-type" image of the writer at the top of their column or article. However, Laura's recently published image shot showed, at her request, her entire figure seated at the computer, with her shapely legs and rather petite feet, encased in those full five inch stiletto heeled pumps for all to see! Laura thought it was time to start updating and increasing her heel height since stiletto heels were now coming back in style in the early 2000's and she still wanted to be one step ahead of the normal heel height.
With all this practice, it still took a lot of Laura's concentration to stand and walk correctly in these 5-1/2 inch stiletto heels. She, therefore, carefully walked into the great room behind two attendants with the other three following behind. She managed to keep her knees as straight as possible while maintaining her balance surprisingly well considering her arches were forced to 68 degree angles by these high heel pumps.
