This is an erotic story for consenting adults, please respect the mature content tagging and do not read if you are not an adult or find such material offensive.

An old school sci-fi style story inspirated by the work of the various artists in my hi-tech self-bondage favorites collection:  neglected2much.deviantart.com/…

I had to use a PDF to properly capture the text formats. On my computer, the readability is much better if I use the little "widen" or "expand" option on the dA PDF viewer. I had to scroll down to the bottom of the window to find it.

Viewing problems: The first time I tried viewing this the PDF viewer showed a failure message, but the download option worked for me. After using the download option, the regular display worked fine within dA and now I'm not getting the failure anymore. I think it's a dA bug. Anyone else have that problem? If anyone has a suggestion, let me know.  If you can't get it to open, you can also read if directly in non-PDF format (google docs) on my personal site at: sites.google.com/site/neglecte…

Thanks to BritslutJenny, mrhungry56, and Mr-Timeshadow for the support with proofreading, feedback and re-assuring me that I'm not insane.

Updated version posted 8-JUL-2015.  A couple dozen or so more sentences and a number of small corrections in the half of the story to help round out the character of Astrid a little more.

Updated 4-MAR-2016 with new commissioned images from heveti!