"Tickled in the Jungle (*/F)"
By: SidaivaRevaso
Deep in the Bolivian jungle, where nobody could hear her scream, Lara had fallen head-first into the trumpet-shaped corolla of an enormous flower.
She was still clutching the Golden Skull of Intil'Nadi, but while fleeing the Sacred Temple she had slipped off a ledge and into a strange patch of mutant flora--including the flower that enveloped her now. When she fell in, the petals had clenched around her and immobilized the top half of her body. Meanwhile, her lower half--from her tight khaki shorts to her black combat boots--remained exposed to the elements. Her legs flailed in the air as she struggled to escape the flower's tightening clutches.
It was pitch-black inside the flower, which made Lara feel as if she'd been blindfolded. And lacking vision, her other senses had become more acute--especially her sense of touch. So when she felt something slip lightly along her bare thighs, she jerked, spasmed, and shrieked.
She couldn't tell what it was at first, but as it began to wrap around her thighs, and as she felt the brushing sensation of leaves against her skin, she knew it must be a creeping vine. It continued to wind around her legs, drawing them together until they couldn't bend at all.
Lara could do nothing but wiggle and grunt, struggling fruitlessly against the vine's tight bondage and the absurdity of her situation. The muscles of her toned legs stretched and strained against the vine's constriction, but she could do nothing to free herself.
Lara had become the jungle's captive.
The idea was bizarre, unfathomable, but when she felt the sensation of another vine sliding down her right thigh and across her knee, she knew it to be true. The vine continued its passage, and before long was gliding along Lara's white sock and onto her sturdy black boot. Then, with remarkable dexterity, it slipped underneath the boot's laces and with a single, vicious jerk, it ripped right through them.
Lara felt her boot loosen appreciably, and when she noticed it being pulled away by the eager vine, her heart skipped a beat.
She suspected now that this was no ordinary jungle. This jungle was conscious. It had intentions. Desires. Perhaps even...
fetishes
.
Her suspicions were confirmed when she felt the tip of the vine drag along the length of her socked foot, which jerked and twitched at the sudden, ticklish sensation. The sensation lingered even after contact, as if the vine were leaving the specter of its touch behind. But Lara forgot this when the vine applied a second delicate touch to her socked sole.
Like one long, nimble finger, the vine teased and stroked, skittered and danced, drawing impossibly elegant designs of torture on Lara's ticklish soles. Inside the flower she writhed and cackled helplessly as her socked foot jerked and twitched in a futile effort to escape the torment.
The vine's movements were impossibly precise, calculated to discover Lara's most sensitive areas, and even through the fabric of the sock she could feel its every incisive touch. So when she noticed the vine slipping away from her sole and back up to the top of her long white sock, she screamed and thrashed as much as she could--which was, given her bondage, not much. The vine slipped deftly beneath the elastic band of Lara's sock, and with a smooth, sensual glide, it ran down the surface of her calf, then past her ankle and down to her heel.
Finally, with an abrupt flourish, it yanked the sock from Lara's foot.
With her slender bare foot now exposed, her sexy toes wiggling in the air, Lara felt achingly vulnerable. Dread overwhelmed her, and she groaned into the darkness of the flower. Resourcefulness had always been her calling card, but now she recognized the hopelessness of her situation, and her inability to influence events had become a humiliating rebuke to her reputation as a plucky woman-of-action. Moreover, since her sense of self-worth had always been attached to that reputation, the experience of having her foot unwillingly revealed would now be forever associated with feelings of weakness and embarrassment.
She was so steeped in shame that she momentarily forgot about the vine. But then, like a victim of trauma, she was flooded by sensory memories of its ticklish assault on her socked sole. Now barefoot, she shuddered to imagine how much more intense the sensations were about to be.
Then she froze, immobilized by fear, having experienced an uncanny intuition: for she knew, without needing to see it, that the vine now hovered inches from her bare sole, giving off a palpable, predatory electricity. Her heart raced in anticipation of the vine's inevitable touch, and a bead of sweat trickled across her temple. She tried to slow her breathing, knowing the importance of regulating it during moments of heightened--