He finds what he lost...

Tom looked at the stone bridge and then went back to his vehicle and pulled out a flashlight. Curiosity got the better of him… There were no lakes on the map, there were no lakes on the GPS satellite image background, this lake shouldn’t be here. Tom went to the stone foot bridge and started down it. He wondered what was at the other side. The bridge was long. Tom started to see the thing on the other end of the bridge better. It was the walls of a sort of castle, like the stuff you think of in Disney films. Tom was walking for twenty minutes as he got closer to the end of the foot bridge. He looked at his phone and there was no signal. Tom looked back and the lights of his vehicle were barely visible.

“Hello?” Tom called out.

He reached the end and saw a sign. It was pink and girly, it read “Welcome to Femford!” Below the big sign was a smaller directional sign pointing to the left reading “Princess Palace,” and other pointing to the right that read “Dominatrix Town.”

“Ok, what the hell,” Tom said with a shrug, “I am out of here.”

Tom turned around and panicked. The foot bridge was gone. Where he had just walked throw, there was a solid waist high wall and no bridge beyond. Tom looked back and forth and there was no sign of the foot bridge, there was no sign of the headlights out past the lake, there was no sigh of anything besides the foot path around the outside wall and the lamp above the weird signs on the castle wall.

“What the fuck?” Tom asked aloud.

There was the sound of clicking heels on the flagstone. It made Tom turn towards it. It was coming in the direction labeled Dominatrix town. In the darkness Tom spotted a glowing and fading red glow as the sound of heels came closer. The sounds became a shape. A tall figure was walking towards him. The glow and fading of the glow was about how the height of a tall man’s head. The glow went flying into the lake beyond. The smell of tobacco smoke came wafting towards Tom and sound of the sizzle informed him that the glow had been from a cigar or cigarette. The figure got closer and the size and shape started to become clearer, six and half feet tall, a flat wide hat, a curved body, and dark long coat over her. The figure was walking closer and closer.

“What do we have here? Another new resident?” the woman said trying to sound commanding.

“KELLY?” Tom gasped recognizing the voice, “Kelly is that you?”

“Tom?” the woman asked in shock.

Tom pointed the flash light at the woman and then dropped it. The woman was indeed his long missing girlfriend Kelly. Tom charged to Kelly and hugged her.

“Kelly!” Tom cried.

Kelly pushed Tom off him and slapped him. Tom was shocked. Kelly then pulled him in for a kiss. Tom could tell she was crying. She eventually broke the kiss and put her hands on Tom’s face. Tom felt the rubber hands on either side of his face.

“God damn it, I was hoping you would be safe and never find this place Tom,” Kelly spoke after a pause that seemed to take eternity, “I don’t want you to suffer this place…”

There was the sounds of more heels further down the corridor along the base of the castle wall. Kelly looked around franticly…

“Come on, we have to get you off the street,” Kelly said as she grabbed Tom’s arm and practically dragged him to a passage in the base of the castle wall and into an ally way.

“Where are we going?” Tom asked as they went along, “What’s the barracks?”

Tom had read the sign on the side of the building as they went into a hallway and to an elevator. Kelly brought him along up to the third floor and down the hall to a door. Quickly they were inside.

“Where are we?” Tom asked in the darkness.

“My apartment,” Kelly said as she flicked the light switch, “The building is called the Barracks because it is the edge of Princess Palace and Dominatrix Town.”

The main room was a bizarre mix or posh wood and metal castle fantasy and hard leather and chrome. Tom was awestruck as he looked around.

“Tom, I missed you so much, but I wish you never came here,” Kelly sighed.

“You said that, why?” Tom asked…

“Femford is a cursed place,” Kelly looked down, “It does horrible things to people…”

Tom looked at his missing girlfriend and noted her black heeled boots and long black trench coat, the blue hair on either temple and the long flowing locks of red hair, complete with the black shiny hat.

“We are together now,” Tom started.

Kelly opened up her trench coat and showed off her black shining thigh boots, black shining miniskirt, black leather belt with a curled whip at her hip, black and pink accented shining corset. It was like a twisted kinky adult mini-skirted version of the Beauty and the Beast ball gown.