Domino staggered to the cold brick wall, a much better place then the strewn about pile of broken crates, soggy cardboard boxes and trash bags. Her head was foggy, the world in her eyes still tilting this way and that in her blurred vision, none of which prevented her from recognizing where she was. She let her sore back touch the wall so she could lean back, try to remember what happened, wouldn't last long though, the fighting in the area told her inside was a place to be for this awakening.
Domino knew of a small corner bar that she could hold up in until her partner in work and love could come get her. The waitress inside looked up sharply as the door opened, she too could hear the fighting outside, possibly only a couple streets away. The woman's eyes grew only a touch thinner as she viewed the pure white mop of knee length hair slide through the door, it was obviously a girl. The clothes were too telling, a baby doll shirt, dirty and torn, with biking shorts of some sort, they too had seen some hard times, both the legs of which had been cut, and had long runs in the nylon material. The girls skin was as white as her hair was, minus the dirt and grime of course.
Lee went to the table the tiny albino girl had practically dragged herself too. "How you doing sweet heart?"
Domino looked up at her, the ruby of her eyes dark and clouded. "I think I'll live, thank you. Do, you have a phone I can use?"
Lee looked at the girl, she looked pretty young, a teenager maybe, but then she was incredibly short, damn elves she thought, they were so hard to tell the age of. Domino was almost 23, but the woman didn't know this. She nodded and handed Domino her cell. Then went to get her something hot to drink, as the girl was shaking like a leaf.
Domino dialed her lovers number.
She nearly cried when she heard his soft guarded voice answer the strange number. "Yeah?"
"Veighn." Was all she got out before he started talking, she could hear in his voice that he had started immediately moving.
"Where are you?"
"I'm at The Quarry, our booth."
"Are you safe?"
She heard his motorcycle start up. "I'm good, there's fighting a few streets over. No one is here but a waitress, this is her phone."
She could hear the wind passing the phone as he rode and spoke at the same time, unwilling to let go of her voice. She wondered if he had just jammed his ear bud in or if he took the second to hook it up or was just holding his phone. The dizziness spun her head again, but his voice drew her back.
"You have been gone for nearly two weeks, where have you been?" As she heard this news her head thundered, spun and threatened to make her vomit.
"I..I don't remember..." her voice was sliding into the void of blackness with her mind at that point.
She felt the table hit her head, heard his voice fade away in worried tones as the phone fell from her hand and bounced away from her across the table. Her mind awoke as she remembered, dreamed what had happened to her, trying to make things make sense to herself. She could hear the sounds of the market, she heard the shots that started being fired, the city had been in the midst of a civil war for months now, this was normal. People started darting around here and there, she simply looked up, as her and her lover were very notably good at clambering across the tightly packed roofing system of the city, it was natural for her to go up when down was dangerous.
She remembered touching the wall, then nothing, when she finished her leap, it was at a wall, but the wall was now different. Instead of the brick wall in the market place, it was a wall of steel, a wire netting over it with what seemed like thousands of parts. Clock parts, car parts, all sorts of parts for tinkering, rope, chain, hooks, Domino spun on her heel, daggers in hands, ready to attack who was there.
The only person there was an old man of maybe 50ish. He regarded her calmly, even though she had daggers ready to attack him. He had a mop of graying hair that may have at one time been black, but it was dirty and untended, so it was difficult to determine. He stood about six foot, when standing straight, and not hunching. He had a strong form, like he worked out a great deal, the clothes on his body gave no clue to his nature either, as he wore a flannel shirt with rolled sleeves and jeans, dusty and dirty like his hair. He was handsome, incredibly dirty, but handsome for his age.
His voice was calm and even when he spoke. "I've waited a long time for you my dear."
She did not sheath her weapons. She was in danger and she knew it, people don't kidnap others to have tea with them, usually. She shifted, ready to take an attack, her facial features questioning to him.
He smiled. "This could have gone easier."
Before she could even wonder what he meant by what he said, metal bands clasped around her ankles, thighs, waist, and wrists. They were cold, and felt as though they were humming. Her hands flew above her head, wrists tightly joined at the bands, they squeezed her wrists until she dropped the daggers.
Already having to stay on tipped toe due to the pull on the bands, she had no way of retrieving the weapons. Domino looked wide eyed to the old man who walked to her calmly.
He waved his hand about, indicating all the metal objects hanging on the wall. "Magnetism, no real biggie, handy for bondage though." He started unbuttoning her shirt, the lacy baby doll no hindrance to him doing this. "You see, I just received the last part I needed to activate my herald. But, I need to power it. There are two ways to do this, I can either find a spirit elf and force it into its spirit form, enabling my machine to be able to absorb it." He pulled her shirt from her, lifting it up and off her hands, the bands moving to allow him to do so. Deft fingers slid under the band of her biking shorts, pulling the cloth from her skin as he continued to speak. "Or, I can impregnate a Khaldorian, one of my own race, a soul will be sent to the new life, and as it floats dreamily towards its new life my machine can suck it up. More energy then a full grown soul, innocence does still have power you know."
Her shorts hit a table across the room. Her panties were impatiently removed, and torn to do so.
As she writhed trying to free herself, the bands on her legs made her take a pose. Her legs spread wide, her knees bent as far as she could fold them, and her legs were then tucked, as if she were squatting in mid air. Her arms lowered, and folded behind her back and up, leveling her nearly to a point of laying strait in the air. As if she hung from unseeing lines.
Domino cried, feeling completely helpless, she could struggle, but her binds forever returned her directly back into the prone position. "Please, don't do this, it isn't worth it." Her voice was quivering.