After listening to Blue's voice message, Charity could not sleep all night. She worried about some of the strange things that she had said - communication coming from a parrot? - time moving backwards?. She could not imagine her lover being locked in a room with no human contact for a month. How was she going to maintain her sanity?
As the night went on, Charity's thoughts became more and more dark. And as fatigue began to settle in as well, her imaginings became more and more surreal.
She awoke in the morning wearing only her chastity belt, her own hands plastered to her breasts which ached in such a way that only gentle caresses could sooth. She had been dreaming that she was kissing Blue, but Blue had a huge stud in her tongue. Then she realized that she was actually kissing Hope in the dream and she pulled back and found that she - herself - was the one with a huge tongue piercing - and that realization made her cum. Unfortunately, that, too, was just part of the dream. Her libido was still stuck in overdrive.
Later that day she was walking through town after a session with a client when she came upon Detective Tumalo and Tam Fir, who was supposedly Blue's previous girlfriend (although, Blue had never mentioned Tam before.) They were sitting at a table outside a cafe, drinking coffee. Needless to say, the encounter was particularly awkward.
"Tam has been just telling me that you have been sending her threatening text messages," the detective said to Charity.
"What?! I don't even know her. Why would I send a threatening text message to her?"
The detective shuffled some papers around and started reading. "'Tell us where Blue is or you will be the next city resident to disappear.'" The detective scanned further down the page, "'If you keep telling lies, I will seal your mouth so you can never talk again!' These texts have been coming from your phone number, Charity," the detective said.
"I haven't sent anything to her! You know that my number has been being spoofed!" Charity said. "I've even switched to a new phone."
The detective looked further down the page. "Is your new number 867-555-5309?"
"What?" Charity asked, turning a bit pale. "How did...?"
"That explains this second number, here," the detective said, showing the piece of paper to Tam. "These texts are also from a phone owned by Ms McKenzie."
"I'm not sending anyone texts. I don't know or even care about this woman," Charity said, pointing to Tam. "My concern is finding my girlfriend, Blue Barclay, who has been missing for over a month now. And you have no leads at all!"
"Ms McKenzie, I am concerned about Ms. Barclay's disappearance, but she is also a 32-year-old woman. Her car was found in the middle of the road and you have made the claim that she is missing. In order to follow a lead I need some sort of evidence that something criminal has taken place - a body, a ransom, evidence of a struggle - anything! For all we know, Ms. Barclay is lounging in some tropical beachside village, sipping fruity drinks with tiny parasols shoved in them."
Charity was so stunned she merely stood with her mouth hanging open - her frustration causing tears of anger to start to ooze from her eyes.
"On the other hand," the detective continued. "Sending harassing text messages to someone IS, in fact, a crime. If Ms. Fir decides to press charges, I suggest that you secure yourself a lawyer. In fact, even if she doesn't press charges, as I've told you before, you should probably find appropriate legal representation!" The detective looked at her phone. "Excuse me, I've got an incoming call..." She stood up and walked into the cafe.
Charity looked at Tam. "Look, you have to believe me, I have no feelings of ani.. animos... anonymah... No feelings of anger towards you. I just have to find Blue. I love her and she's missing!"
Tam looked up at Charity, then down towards Charity's crotch. "I don't think you know how dangerous that bitch, Blue, is."
"Huh?" Charity asked.
"She and I played BDSM games too. She became cruel. The BDSM community is not that big in this city. There's no secret that you have taken my place as her favorite toy. She wanted me to... wear things... for extended periods of time... bondage things. At first it was fun, but she always wanted more. Sometimes I would beg her to release me, but she always convinced me to wear shit just a little longer. But then... that shit somehow started to affect me... fuck with my mind somehow... It confused me... It was starting to... to... I don't know... seriously affect me... mentally! Still Blue wanted me to wear it. That is when I knew I had to break up with her. She's dangerous, Charity," Tam continued. "I hope you're not locked up somehow. I wouldn't put it past Blue to conveniently disappear and leave you somehow stuck. Just to see how it affects you. She doesn't love you, Charity. She's not capable of love. You're just a research subject."
"I have no fucking idea what you are talking about," Charity said, working hard to not look down at her captive, pulsing sex. "I'm sorry that you are receiving threatening texts. They are not from me. Otherwise, I don't know what you are talking about. I have to go." Charity turned and started to walk down the sidewalk.
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Journal Entry 2:
Subject: Ash Adams - p-FEAR Installation
Wrist and Ankle Restraint Cuffs
QM: Rainbow
It took no time for our subject, Ash Adams, to discover her newly installed wrist and ankle cuffs upon awakening from her latest sleep cycle. Previously, the fetters used to maintain the subject in Isolation Theater 3 were tight but still allowed a minimal degree of slippage. These new cuffs have been manufactured specifically for the subject and fit the shape and contours of her physiology perfectly.
Indeed, the manufacturing process is one of the leading reasons we have chosen to perform subject extractions at this particular time and place. We use expensive state of the art technologies to create these restraints.
The fetters are generated in two separate parts using 3D titanium printing techniques which produce components manufactured to a tolerance of +/- 2 microns. Sandwiched within the layers of titanium are micropackets of three chemical compounds which, alone, are inert however produce a slow acting form of homogeneous dilative crystalline corrosion when combined.
Each half of the restraint contains a series of plug and socket connectors. The plug portions from one half are slotted into the socket portions of the other. The structure of these connection points allow for millions of microscopic grooves to interlock, preventing backslide even under multi-tonnage loads. The friction created by the coupling of the two parts compromise the seals of the micropackets releasing and intermixing the compounds which leach into cavities in the lattice of the metal substrate. The dilative crystal growth will conjoin the various components of the fetters into a single, high strength entity.
The result of this manufacturing and installation process is a sleek, solid, seamless, three inch wide metal cuff with two universally mounted attachment rings.