[Features: forced into poses, reluctance via toys, unable to move]
Destiny. 24, female, dreamt of being an investigative reporter. A bit short, a bit thick, and a bit hot-headed. Or at least that was how she thought of herself. She was 5'6, 150lb, and a few more choice words describing her personality would be used by her friends and family. She was actively investigating a case and had stumbled upon a lead, hoping it would be her big break.
That was until she mysteriously vanished 7 days ago, just like all the others.
This is her story.
"Fucking garbage ass shit."
Destiny was livid. She had thought she was going to meet an informant today but they never showed up. Asshole.
Sigh
This case was going to be her big break. It all started 3 weeks ago. Women were disappearing. Just vanishing into thin air. Well, not literally, that would've made her solving it nearly impossible. She needed to pack her resume, really get some street cred to her name so she could get hired. So she had set about trying to solve it, to figure out what the police couldn't. Bunch of idiots anyway. All that fancy equipment and gear and can't do basic reconnaissance.
And finally, finally, she had a lead. She was supposed to meet him at a cafe but the fucker never showed. She had waited and even messaged him but nothing. Total no show. Now she was fuming, on her way back to her apartment. She'd just have to keep at it, she'd crack this thing wide open sooner or later.
As she made it home and through the door, something immediately seemed off to her. She wasn't blind after all. She didn't know what had set her off but she scanned her apartment, wondering what was going on-
Oh.
On her coffee table. In the living room she was facing. In front of her. There was a book.
She didn't own any books like that.
Her first reaction was to run. To get the hell out of here in case whoever the hell had set it down was still just lurking around in her bedroom or bathroom.
But her curiosity radiated even more. Her informant had said he would be giving her a lead right? He just happens not to show up and then a book appears on her living room table? Yeah, that ain't no coincidence. She was still cautious, carefully walking toward it, keeping her eyes opened towards where her bedroom door was and the bathroom within.
She carefully reached down to the book, hoping to just open it and see what it was about, and leave immediately if it had absolutely nothing to do with what was going on. She should've checked her bedroom and bathroom first but what was she realistically going to do if there was some asshole with a gun in there? Die? No, better to check the book for evidence and then flee at the first sign of trouble.
It wasn't a great plan, really showing a few personal failings, but it was a decent enough one.
So it was a shame that trouble found her first.
No one expects a book to attack you.
Suddenly, when she reached down towards the book, it began to float upwards and at her. She tried to dodge, but the book never actually hit her. Which was just as well, as she found she suddenly couldn't move.
She pulled with all her might in her panic but it was like her arms and legs were stuck in nothing but air, hitting some kind of iron wall. She snapped her head over to see what was going on and was shocked to see what looked like transparent yellow energy holding her in place, in the form of shackles and chains, just connecting to thin air. She glanced down at her legs and they were the same there too.
She was really started to freak out now that things had gone paranormal.
So she pulled and pushed and twisted and contorted her body in ways even she didn't believe were possible. She wasn't fat, at all, but she was a bit of a brickhouse, bit wide. Even still, none of it actually helped her damn situation.
She was stuck, trapped.
Then she heard her door open. She could barely see it, from this angle, but she didn't need to worry because soon two guys stood at her side.
She could feel her heart hammering in her chest, especially as she saw a third guy just idly walking around, poking at different nicknacks she had.
They didn't say a word, they didn't even have any facial expressions she could see as they were wearing plain black masks. No facial features or anything on it, just a slab of dark metal, slightly curving around, for a head.
"WHO THE FU-?!"
Her words were cut off as she suddenly found an... energy? Muzzle around her face. Forcing her to clamp her mouth shut.
Her mind was still reeling, her panic had grown into a chaos of just wanting to run away, as fast as possible, and her emotions were all over the place as she had no fucking idea what was going on.
Then she felt her legs and arms start to get dragged away.
She feared the worst and she had no idea what the worst even was at the moment. Well, no, actually she had a fairly good idea about that one actually.
But instead of being ripped to shreds or something equally horrible, she simply felt herself forced to take steps and turns as the chains around her maneuvered her.
When it stopped, she had her legs spread to their sides and her arms up in the air, as if she was being pinned to a wall in a dungeon. Staring directly at herself, of all things. She had a full-length mirror in her home, to make sure she was always ready for work and to look professional whenever she would go out.