“Okay, got it. So what are you gonna do instead.”
“Watch,” I said. I pressed one of the buttons on the computer.
“What am I watching?”
“Your left leg.”
The portal’s light lit up green to show it’d been activated.
“It’s … like retracting.” Alyssa’s mouth hung open as she looked at her leg, running her hand down her thigh as it was pulled into the portal.
“Right. Technically, we’re compressing your leg until it’s two dimensional, basically putting it where things go ‘between’ the portals.”
Alyssa’s leg had disappeared up to her knee, and kept going. Soon it was just her foot, until everything finished being sucked up by the portal.
“Is this like a metal disc or something?”
“Pretty much,” I said. “We use platinum as a catalyst for the reaction to take place, which means that a thin strip of it will ‘protect’ your leg. Although at this point, we could just take the portal shell off and you’d have a smooth stump on your leg.”
“I wanna see!”
“Sure.”
I removed the portal shell, exposing a perfectly shaped thigh, ending in a right angle and flat surface.
“Weird,” she said, stroking it. “I can feel it like it’s inside my leg. But the rest of my leg I can’t feel at all.”
“Do you wan to keep going?” I asked.
“Definitely!” she grinned. “Can you do the other three all at once!”
“Sure,” I said. I went back to the computer and selected the remaining portals, then told them to activate.
I looked back to Alyssa who was lying back, watching her arms begin to withdrawal into the portals.
“I have kind of a confession to make,” she said. “And that’s that I like being tied up.”
“Oh yea?” I grinned.
“Yea. And this — this seems like it’ll be like being tied up, only better. Because I won’t be able to move at all.”
“Oh, you can still squirm around a bit,” I said. “And I may as well tell you, I may have a bit of a thing for seeing girls tied up.”
“Why didn’t we do this sooner? Look at that, it’s up to my elbows!”
We both watched her hands flex, before she waved goodbye to me. Then her arms and legs were both gone.
“Take off the portals!” she said. “This is so cool!”
I undid the portals, exposing three more perfectly flat stumps.
“So this is for storing someone?” she said. “Are you sure it’s not for this?”
“Well, ‘this’ is why I was so interested in the project. But at least on the surface, it’s for storage. We could collapse an entire person down and retrieve them later. You could ship through the mail. We’ve done it.”
“I think you’re overlooking the utility of this as a toy for people like us.”
I laughed “It’s a ten million dollar machine, but maybe there are some rich perverts we should be looking for.”
She shrugged her empty shoulders. “I love this. How long can I stay this way?”
“Pretty much as long as you like. As long as nothing happens to the shells, your arms and legs will be fine.”
“Can we take it further?” she said.
“What’d you have in mind?” I laughed.
“My head.”
“Hmm,” I said, sitting down on the table next to her. I lifted her up so she was sitting on my lap. “Your head…” I tracked my finger along her neck.
Her eyes closed, and I thought I felt her pulse throbbing, quicker, quicker.
“Yea. Is that possible?”
“It is. There’s just one thing I need to do first.”
“And what’s that.”