Suzy stood outside the large industrial building and hesitated. She looked again at the letter in her hand then pushed the door bell button beside the large steel door. Almost immediately the light over the door came on, then more than a minute passed. The door finally opened and a young woman with blonde hair, wearing a tank top tee shirt and a pair of jeans appeared. She looked at Suzy and offered her hand. Suzy took it and the young woman led her inside. The steel door slammed shut behind them.
Inside the building the lights were very dim. A few naked bulbs lit what was obviously a large workshop. In what little light there was Suzy could make out a number of large machines along one side of the room. As her eyes adjusted to the dark she could see that a workbench ran much of the length of the side of the room. The other side was even more unfamiliar, the tools there had an ancient, unfamiliar look. She could see flames flickering in what appeared to be an old time forge and before it stood an anvil, surrounded by blacksmith's tools. At the end of the room, lit by several flaming torches, stood a large wooden frame, a cube almost twelve feet high. The woman led her through the workshop to the cube.
"I'm CJ", she said, introducing herself. "I am the Artist's assistant tonight. I will be helping him". She sat down in a corner and lowered her head, saying nothing else.
Suzy looked around. There were numerous chests and boxes stacked around the frame, and the walls were covered with shelves holding objects of all descriptions. It looked like a fantastic bric-a-brac shop where you could probably find anything you wanted. She looked at the woman sitting in the corner. She was quite small, wasn't even wearing shoes. Didn't seem to be very outgoing. Suzy had come prepared for a special evening as the letter she had received had instructed her, and had worn a special dress, a black cocktail dress with spaghetti straps. The fabric clung to her and showed off her ample breasts well. Her long red hair had been curled and finished nicely, she wore thigh high stockings but no underwear for thathad been specified in the letter. The sight of the frame and the knowledge of what it was for, sent a shiver of excitement up her spine.
The man known as the Artist entered the room. He wore black trousers and a black shirt and as he approached the frame CJ rose to her feet. He looked at Suzy.
"Good Evening" Suzy said, her voice a little nervous.
"It is good" said the Artist "And we will try to make it better. I see you have met CJ. Now Suzy do you know why you are here?"
"The letter said I was to be the subject of some trials"
"That's correct" said the man "I manufacture several types of bondage equipment, some of them of custom design. Tonight we will be testing some of them. I hope you can prepared to experience them"
Suzy looked down obediently. "Yessir I did"
"Fine. First you must be fitted for a collar. CJ will you please measure Suzy's neck and see if we have a collar that will fit her"
CJ stepped up to Suzy and took out a tape measure and wrapped it around Suzy's neck. Then she walked over to a shelf where there were several silvery objects. She returned with a metal collar, made of hammered steel. It formed a complete circle with a hinge at one side and a latch at the other. Around its circumference were four loops equidistant from each other. The collar was an inch and a half wide and fitted around Suzy's neck snugly. She held her chin up as CJ put the collar on and snapped the latch. There was a large mirror on the wall and she could see herself wearing the collar, the silver grey iron contrasting with her skin. She had worn leather collars before but this, this was heavy, cold steel, pressing around her neck. She felt her heart beat a little faster.
The Artist spoke: "Now Suzy if you will come into the center of the frame please. You see we have a seat for you" The odd contraption looked like a bicycle seat on a pedestal.
"Please sit down on it. You may use this bar to keep you balance". He swung a long bar out from the frame and Suzy put her hands on it as she sat down on the small seat, her feet barely touching the floor.
The Artist continued: "Now we will show you what the loops on the sides of the collar are for. CJ if you will"
CJ moved quickly and attached light chains to each of the four loops, which she then attached to hooks at the corners of the frame. The length of each chain was such that, when adjusted, held Suzy exactly in the centre of the frame by her collar, she could move neither right, left, forwards or backwards. And she was still carefully balanced on the infernal seat which was now pushing up into her crotch in a terrible way.
The Artist watched CJ as she attached the light chains and smiled, knowing that she herself had frequently been bound by them.
"Now Suzy I am going to apply some manacles to you, my own design. Unlike most manacles that have a simple latch these have a screw mechanism, so that when we put them on your wrists we can clamp them very snugly, you see here? " Suzy nodded
"The hooks here allow me to attach a chain of any length, so they can be used as simple handcuffs, or that can be attached to the overhead winches you see above us. The final feature is the most diabolical. Do you see these three little knobs here?". He pointed to three silver knobs on the manacles.
"They each control a needle that drives into the flesh. As you turn them the needle punctures the skin and causes the subject to bleed. By turning the knob only slightly you get just a small amount of bleeding. When the bleeding stops you simply twist it further to start it again. This way you can keep a subject bleeding for several hours, without them passing out from loss of blood. "
Suzy sucked in her breath a little at hearing this and seeing the manacles. The Artist and CJ placed them on her wrists and screwed them down firmly. He then took two chains hanging from overhead and attached them to the manacles that held her wrists. Pulling another chain he started to winch up the chains holding her wrists, slowly, inexorably. He operated the winch until her arms we over above her head, although still quite loose, not yet stretched out. Suzy sat on the seat balancing, her hands chained above her head. The Artist swung the bar back out of the way.
"We have similar cuffs for your ankles."
CJ passed him two more metallic objects which he secured to Suzy's ankles. "this time however instead of chains we will use a solid spreader bar which will keep your ankles apart. CJ passed him a bar which he attached to one cuff, then pushing Suzy's legs apart attached to the other. CJ helped Suzy keep her balance as he did this.
With her legs held apart the Artist begin to operate the winch once more and the chains holding Suzy's arms tightened, pulling her off the small seat She groaned as her shoulders took all the weight of her body and finally the chains stopped rattling and she hung suspended by her wrists, slowly spinning in front of the Artist and CJ
"Damn" said the Artist
"What is it" said CJ and Suzy together, both worried that the man was upset.