While Mandy oohed and ahhed over Ellen's designs, Flora and Jason headedoff through the convention dealer's room to see what other delights the place might hold for the kinky shopper.
Almost immediately, Jason saw something that nearly made him collapse with silent laughter. At Flora's questioning look, he pointed. The elderly couple they had earlier noticed coming off the elevator were nowbrowsing the dealers room, dressed in matching outfits of black and white vinyl! The lady caught Jason looking at them, and nodding in recognition, smiled at them politely.
Flora and Jason continued on their way, with bemused expressions on their faces.
Many of the tables on this side of the room appeared to be for mobile"clubs" and social organizations, which surprised Jason, since he had expected such groups to adopt a low profile since the notoriousSpanner Case. After talking with several party organizers however, theydiscovered that at least here in England, the pervy crowd had opted to fight back with pride and public presence. In doing so, it was hoped that they would not be so easily dismissed as a "lunatic fringe" by the relatively conservative local media.
Finally, they began seeing more interesting booths and tables. Tugginghis arm, Flora pulled him over to one that he'd missed. The owner appeared to be selling sculpture, since the centerpiece of her display was a lifelike, ebony statue of a woman. Most of the other shoppersmerely glanced at the statue and moved on. When Flora showed more interest, the woman got up from her stool and introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Lori," she said, offering a hand to Flora, while giving Jasonthe once-over-lightly. "Are you interested in a cocoon?" she asked.
"Well, I..." faltered Flora, shooting a puzzled look at Jason.
"You mean, waitaminute- that's not a statue?" Jason interrupted.
"A cocoon, as I said. My lover is inside. Don't worry- she's fine,just immobilized rather thoroughly. Since each one is made from a moldof the person's body, it is a perfect custom fit... and quite snug." Jason took a closer look at the cocoon. It was jet black, and polishedto a high gloss. Tall and sculpted realistically in the form of a thin yet attractive nude woman, the sculpture was possessed of an almostsurreal beauty. She had slender almost boyish hips; small, rather pointed breasts, and long, muscular legs. She looked like a dancer, andhe said so.
"She is. Or was rather, now she's a maid, more or less," Lori replied.
"What, er, what is it made of?" asked Flora, who already had a gleam inher eye.
"Fiberglass reinforced resin. The base on this one is marble, althoughwe usually make it from finished wood. The fiberglass is nearly a centimeter thick, so it is quite heavy. On the plus side, it's almost completely soundproof. Here, take a flyer." She handed each of them a color brochure containing pictures of the manufacturing process. Whilethey read, and looked over the pictures, she continued.
"As you can see, we first make a full body plaster cast of the subject.That's a lot of fun, even if it's not as useful as the finished item."
Jason and Flora exchanged looks. They had both had the titillating, ifsomewhat frightening experience of full body casts not so very long ago.
"Then, a positive is cast using steel-reinforced Hydrocal, which gives us a sturdy form, an exact duplicate of the slave. The fiberglass islaid up on that. That last picture there shows some options we made fora recent customer in the U. S.- interchangeable bust cups with various devices built in, head fittings, crotch accessories, and so on. The version I brought here is pretty basic- it's one of the first we evermade. Oh and of course, you can have your choice of color, too. We're seriously thinking of offering one in transparent acrylic plastic but it would be hideously expensive and about twice as much work."
Jason nodded toward the `statue'. "How long do you keep her in there?"
"Depends on my mood- and hers. And how good she's been." She glancedat her watch. "Right now, she's going on seven hours."
"SEVEN HOURS?" exclaimed Jason. He realized he'd nearly shouted and immediately looked sheepish. "Well, I mean, that seems like a long time for something that severe."
"It isn't necessarily severe at all- it's quite comfortable really,since it conforms to her body exactly." She grinned. "Which is notto say it can't be MADE unpleasant, or for that matter, pleasurablydistracting- there are a few options, even on this model." She wasobviously warming to her subject, no doubt recognizing a pair ofpotential customers when she saw them. She moved to the `statue' and pointed out various features as she lectured. "The natural curves of the human body made hinges quite impossible, so we had some small latches designed- they run down eachside. They're morticed into the edges, so they're not very noticeable. The edges are made with tongue-and-groove construction, and a neoprenegasket runs around the entire perimeter, making for a water-tight, and for all practical purposes air-tight, seal. For that reason, we will not ship a cocoon without both mouth and nose openings, since otherwise,it's impossible to tell whether your slave is in trouble, or even breathing." She took out a small mirror from under the counter and held it belowthe nose of the tall form. When she showed it to them, Jason saw mistquickly disappearing on the glass. This produced a powerful reaction inhim that he couldn't quite explain the source of, but the result wasplain. He shifted his stance, to hide his growing excitement. It wasas if, until she'd produced the mirror, the discussion had all been theoretical, but now, faced with proof that there was indeed a living, breathing person inside that ebony sculpture, someone who had the same beautiful shape as the exterior, he experienced a unique, empathic thrill.
"As I was saying," Lori went on, "there are a few features that I think of as standard, even though we've only made a few of these so far. Although you can't see it, the crotch has places where vibrators, butt-plugs and so on can be fitted, and..." she inserted a small toolfrom her pocket into the statue's navel, "the entire crotch can be removed completely, granting access to the slave's genitals." Lori pulled at the crotch, and a narrow curved section, extending from just below the navel to the bottom of the buttocks, now came away in her hands. The seams were so finely matched, that they had been invisibleuntil she had opened the panel.
She pulled it down with exaggerated slowness, and soon they saw why. Attached to it's inner surface, and presumably being withdrawn from thewoman inside, was a tremendous, tapering plug that seemed entirely too long and thick for the scale of the slender statue. At it's base it had to be at least four inches in diameter, it's tapered length appearedroughly ten inches long, and the blunt, rounded end seemed reminiscent ofa golf ball. As she set the plate aside, long slimy strands of some stringy, artificial lubricant stretched between the panel and whereit had just been, as if the statue were reluctant to give up that which had recently been so intimately connected with it. Removing the panelrevealed a small patch, perhaps fore inches wide, of a naked, hairlessmons. A faint gleam hinted at piercings or some other hardware, nestledbetween her lips.
Jason glanced at Flora, and they shared a wide-eyed, disbelieving look. Neither could quite believe that that giant dong had been inside areal person.
When they looked back, Lori was sitting on the stool close to the statue, donning a black latex opera-length glove, and squeezing lubricant onto it. She smeared it liberally over the glove, then pausedtheatrically to smile at her visitors.
"I suspect my Amy is loose enough by now, wouldn't you think?"
Jason and Flora just gaped back as Lori turned and began easing her fingers inside the rear end of the statue. In the space of ten seconds, her hand had disappeared. She appeared to be moving her fingers, becausethey could see the muscles in her forearm working. Lori returned their stares with a slight smile. She leaned a little closer to her work, and moved her arm up. To Jason's utter amazement, after a little working andslow movements back and forth, Lori had her arm inside the statue up to her elbow. Even taking into account the fact the Lori's arm wasconsiderably smaller than his, he was quite taken aback, and for a flashing instant, had a vision of what the person inside must beexperiencing.
Lori spoke for the first time in several minutes. "It's very tight-there's almost no room inside for her body to expand." She moved her other hand up and began manipulating the occupant's front with a single pinky finger, which she worked in between the labia. After a few moments, she sped up her hand motion, then stopped. After a moment, sheslowly, very slowly, eased out her other arm and hand.
"There," she said, looking quite pleased with herself as she strippedoff the long rubber glove. "That will be her fourth orgasm since shewent inside this morning- and one she won't soon forget, I imagine. So-" she looked Flora steadily in the eye, "-think you're ready for one?"
"An orgasm?" interjected Jason.
"No idiot," Flora shot back, "one of those." She looked nervously fromLori to Jason to the statue, and back to Lori again. "Well, actually, it does sound fun, but... well, it would be up to my, um, our, mistress." She looked down at the table, then up at Lori through lowered eyelashes- her best submissive look. Jason had tostruggle to suppress his laughter.
"Of course, of course," soothed Lori, "don't you worry your pretty little head about it." She smiled as a cat might smile at a bird shewas planning to have for lunch.
"Just give her one of my cards, won't you?" She handed Flora a plainwhite business card.
SARCOPHAGUS INCORPORATED Lori Nielson, prop.
"Thanks," Flora managed to stammer.
"Yes, thanks," added Jason, "but we've really got to get going..."Flora stared fascinated over her shoulder at the cocoon, as Jason nearly dragged her away.
-=O=-
They walked slowly away from the Sarcophagus Incorporated table,both of them slightly dazed. After a moment, Jason broke the silence.
"I guess what amazes me is that she can get away with fisting someone,right out in front of God, Freud, and everybody... I mean, what with theSpanner Case, you'd think everyone would be overly cautious."
Flora wore a bemused expression on her face. "If you think aboutit," she replied, "she wasn't doing anything all that attention-getting. After all, that cocoon DOES look like a statue- hell, youcould have it in the corner of the dining room at High Tea. Any casual observer could assume she had her arm inside a hollow statue-that would be a natural assumption, wouldn't it? I mean, unless you take more than a moment to think about what she was doing... I don't know. Hey- what's this?"
They had come to a stop, as if by some silent agreement, in front ofone of the largest purveyors of latex and rubber clothes. This placestood out from the rest however, if for no other reason than they hadtaken up three booth spaces with their tables and racks, and had anunusually large share of the convention-goers gathered around. Anotherreason was the highly professional and slick appearance of theirpresentation. Their area was against one wall, and they had put dozensof huge photo-posters of their fashions high up on the wall. Below thepictures was a continuous row of clothes racks running the width of thebooth, holding an astonishing variety of odd-looking clothing and accessories.
In front of the racks were three platforms, upon which models displayedthe company's wares. Curtained booths at either end of the area wereapparently being used as changing areas.
But the first thing that Flora noticed was the unusual appearance of themodels. The girls at either end wore fantastic-looking molded rubberfashions. The one on the left, a blond man with chiseled features anda weight-lifters body, wore an unusual tanktop of very shiny silver latex, which had molded conical spikes covering it in symmetrical patterns. His leather thigh boots by contrast, were black and had large, conical metal spikes attached along the shins, at the front and sides of the knee, and at the back of the heels. She noted with interestthat the boots had platform soles and tall stiletto heels. She decided she liked this look on a man. His opposite partner, on the right-hand platform, was a red-head, judging from the ponytail protruding from thetop of her helmet. Her costume was much more interesting than the male's, at least in Flora's opinion. A rather bizarre catsuit of polished lime green latex,it had a molded and heavily-boned corset built right in. The corset portion featured a complex "biomechanical" design molded into it, with exaggerated ribs. The bust cups were covered in rubber spikes, and a complicated skeletal pattern, like the spine of a robot, was molded intothe back. The rest of the suit consisted mainly of sheets of thick rubber joining the arms and legs, the open-faced helmet, and sides of the suit, such that unless she made an effort, the model was encouraged by the slightly stretched material to stand with her legs wide apart, andher arms akimbo over head. The "wings", the sheets joining each arm to it's corresponding leg, were painted or airbrushed with elaborate, semi-mechanical tendon designs. The whole effect was a bit like a green cybernetic flying squirrel. Flora saw that since the helmet was incorporated into the rubber sheet joining the arms, it was nearly impossible for the model to move her head.
Flora stared in rapt fascination at the woman for several minutes, whilethe model turned slowly, occasionally demonstrating that she could infact move her arms and legs around, but judging from the determined lookon her face, it took considerable effort.
Finally, Flora turned her attention to the center, slightly higher, dais. This platform was somewhat larger than the other two, with arailing surrounding it, and was obviously intended to be the centerpieceof their display. It was occupied by someone of unknown sex wearing a black rubber inflatable full-body suit. It appeared, after she examined it awhile, that the chest, pelvis, and legs could be inflated separatelyfrom each other, as well as the helmet, hands, and feet. Each hand had been inflated so large that they gave the wearer the appearance of a collection of giant sausages and basketballs. The legs and arms were swelled to the degree that the arms were forced nearly to the horizontal,while the legs were pushed wide apart. No shoes or boots were worn on the feet- hardly surprising, since they too were inflated to gargantuansize. The whole assemblage gave the impression of a collection of blackballoons that had decided to go for a walk. The face of the helmet was devoid of any decoration or features, except for a single fitting where Flora thought the mouth might be. She wonderedfor a moment about the sex of the person inside.
Occasionally, and seemingly with great difficulty since the legs werebeing pressed wide apart, the wearer would turn around to face the opposite direction, so that customers could see the other side.
When he (or she- it was impossible to tell) turned around, Flora saw that a collection of small hoses depended from the waist at the backof the suit, and ran down to a small box, held by one of the employees sitting in a chair. Another hose connected to the box and led under one of the tables.
One of the other employees leaned down to speak in the seated operator'sear, and a moment later, a faint hissing was heard, as the suit's body,hands, and feet deflated to more normal proportions. In a few seconds, the figure looked human again, merely another rubber fiend, trapped in an elaborate body suit. In fact, it was now possible to guess the gender ofthe model inside, as the swell of hips and breast became apparent beneaththe now relaxed sheets of rubber, as did an unusually shaped bulge at thecrotch. Now Flora noticed small wires leading from the crotch and breasts, that joined the bundle of tubing from the control console. Judging from the normal size of the mittens, and the fact that the suitappeared to be made from fairly heavy rubber, Flora imagined that when inflated, the fit inside must be very tight indeed!
After a moment, faint hissing was again heard, and the occupant's hands flew to her crotch, as some unseen force caused her balance to become noticeably uncertain. The next moment her hands pawed desperatelyat her chest, as her breasts appeared to swell in size from inside the suit. In a short time, her bust had swollen to legendary proportions, and several onlookers began to chuckle. Whatever unseen event had causedher to wobble was still at work apparently, for her hands moved again toher crotch for a moment, and then she slowly sank to her hands and knees,her chest heaving. It was obvious that she was breathing deeply andhard. The operator allowed her to stay in that position for only a moment, then one hand and a leg began to inflate. As the leg was forcedstraight and her hand swelled, she was slowly pushed over onto her side. Eventually, the occupant seemed to get the idea, and struggled deliberately onto her back. A twist of another dial on the operator'sbox, and her leg and hand gradually resumed their normal size.
The subject had taken to squirming in decidedly excited ways, moving herhands across her ridiculously-sized chest and through her crotch. Florawondered with great interest just what was going on inside the suitdown there.
Apparently, this wasn't enough for the operator, for soon the suit againswelled all over, forcing the occupant's arms and legs wide again. In fact in her new position, there wasn't enough room within the rails forher limbs, and her hands and feet wound up outside the railing supports, below the bottom rail. After no more than a minute, her legs and arms were held rigidly away from her body, but the hands and feet of the suitcontinued to swell for another minute. When they stopped, it was clearly impossible to withdraw them through the rails- she was trapped in placeby the suit! The audience applauded, while the occupant of the suitbegan to squirm and vibrate in ernest- it was apparent that there wasmore happening inside the suit than met the eye externally. Finally,the subject arched her back, her pelvis held above the floor for a longmoment, while the onlookers held their breath. Then she collapsed witha thump, and instantly, the entire suit deflated. The collected crowd broke into enthusiastic applause, and loud conversations resumed along the front of the booth.
"I'll bet that would keep you frustrated for a while," came a voice atFlora's shoulder. She turned toward the voice and got a fast peck on the lips for her trouble. Mandy had caught up with them, and was admiring the inflatable suit as well.
"Have you looked in their catalog yet?" she asked, "they have a lot moreof this sort of thing- they're really innovative, I think. Grab one forme, will you?"
She turned her attention to Jason, who was more entranced by the redhead in the "bat-suit". "Hey, big boy, buy a lady a drink?" Shesmiled at his startled look when he turned and saw who it was.
"Hey lover," he said, hugging her, "did you and... Ellen was it? ...you and Ellen- figure out a design?" He glanced significantly at the bags Mandy was toting. Obviously, she had been doing more shopping.
"Mm-hmm, that Ms. Schiffer is a bonafied genius- I'll have to put blindfolds on you and Flora to keep you from drooling on me when yousee it. The best part is... she says she can have it ready for the GrandBall Sunday night!"
Jason looked dubious. "How?! Unless she has an army of people still working back at her shop... Say, about that drink..."
"Count me in too," Flora chimed in. She sounding a bit breathless, Jason thought. "I could use a- I'm a little ah..." she looked again at the inflated suit, and the "bat-suited" woman. "I just need a drink," she finished lamely.
Jason laughed, Mandy laughed, and finally Flora joined in. Mandy handed a shopping bag to each, and taking her lovers and slaves arm-in-arm, marched together with them, in search of the bar.
-=O=-
...to be continued
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