Alice swatted at Sandra’s hand, trying to get free and get to the keyboard. Her salvation was less than two feet away, if she could just get to it!
“Stop that, Toy.” Sandra said without even looking away from the screen. The sentence sent another chill down Alice’s spine. Sandra hadn’t called her by her name, she was just ‘toy’ to Sandra now. Was that really all she was? No! Alice refused to let someone as vain as Sandra decide her fate. With renewed vigor she began trying to break free again.
“Alright. If you’re going to do that, I’m going to fix that right away.” Sandra said and clicked a button. Alice turned her head seeing the button for ‘animate’ being deselected and felt the floor drop out from under her as Sandra pressed the save button.
In a flash Alice felt a tingle sweep over her body and suddenly she couldn’t move. No, not just couldn’t move. She couldn’t even twitch. She felt her body suddenly go ramrod straight, her arms locked at her sides and her head straightening out to look forward. Alice strained against the confines of her transformed body but realized she couldn’t move. Her body was no longer under her control.
“Well that calmed you down.” Sandra smirked sitting the now still toy down on the desk. Alice was helpless inside her body to do anything as she felt herself wobble for a moment. Even the simplest of movements to correct her balance was now beyond her. If pushed she would fall over just like… well, like a toy….
“So I know that you are still aware inside there.” Sandra began. “Trapped inside a silly looking toy. Stuck smiling like you just love it. Maybe you do, or maybe you’re screaming inside your own head, why can tell?” Sandra gloated. Alice was helpless to respond in any way. Helpless to protest or beg.
“I wonder what happens when you get wound up, little toy.” Sandra asked more to herself than to the toy as she picked it up and began winding the key. Alice felt the key winding the spring inside her body. Her limbs beginning to move. For a moment she thought her mobility had returned. But no. Her legs began to kick, her arms swinging in alternation. Sandra sat the transformed toy down on the desk and watched as it began to march across the surface. Alice was unable to do anything but observe as her body began to march forward. She couldn’t turn, couldn’t alternate, it was the simple march of a toy, one leg swinging forward, then the other. Her arms stiffly swinging in time.
Alicec was powerless inside her body as she marched forward. The edge of the desk quickly approaching. With a growing sense of terror, she realized that Sandra wasn’t going to stop her. She was going to let her march over the edge, and Alice was helpless to stop herself. The edge grew closer and closer and Alice realized just how high her desk was now. She struggled and screamed, trying to stop herself, but simply couldn’t. With a gut wrenching sensation her left leg stepped into empty air and she felt herself falling forward.
The world spun, Alice was mentally yelling as she fell, she was going to fall to the wooden floor and break, and she was powerless to do anything. But, just as she began to think about it she was grabbed out of the air by a giant hand. Sandra simply grabbing the toy as it fell and holding it back up to eye level.
“Now little toy, I’m going to keep looking at how to use this thing. You can just keep marching, you seem to enjoy it.” She smiles a cruel smile, tracing Alice’s permanently grinning lips with a fingertip. With that she sat Alice down on the table, sideways. Alive found herself laying on her left side as her legs co tinier to kick in the air and her body rocked back and forth as her arms swung back and forth. If anything this was even more humiliating than being forced to march around, it was like her body didn’t even realize she was no longer moving and just couldn’t stop.
‘Please turn me back.’ Alice mentaly pleaded as she saw Sandra begin reading the computer screen once more.