Seb and Danny's Unexpected Visitor: A Re-write (M/mm)

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The "nanotechnology ropes" reminded me of something a friend used on his little brother (who thought himself an escape artist) during a camping trip. Unlike the "nanotech", this was only slightly high-tech and is very possible (not easy, but possible) with today's technology.

We'd planned a few days camping and friend's parents insisted that he take his 10-year-old brother along. Friend not thrilled, I didn't care as the kid really wasn't a pest - at least not to me. But after being (very loosely) tied up on a previous short outing, he kept bragging about how quickly he'd escaped, and his brother made it clear that the price of joining our camping weekend would be a tie-up rematch.

My dad had a sailboat he was working on, which involved a fair amount of epoxy work. Not the little tubes; this was real two-part resin/hardener stuff you had to mix, and was rather liquid until it set - suddenly. He also had plenty of rope, the "double braid" type with an inner core and a woven outer cover (that'd I'd been attempting to master the art of splicing - not easy - but I had several lengths for practice). Thus was the plan formed:

After setting up camp and finishing supper, the first tie-up challenge was proposed. Little bro was sent off to do his business and wash up as he was warned he might be tied for quite a while. While he was gone I mixed up a small bucket of the epoxy resin, then took two ~ten-foot lengths of
"double braid" and pulled the inner core most but not all of the way out of the cover - more like sliding the cover back to the far end, with a knot to stop it. The two rope cores were then dropped into the epoxy, except for the two ends, and stirred well so they would soak it up. Then, we (very) carefully slid the covers back over the epoxy-saturated cores, resulting in two ropes that felt oddly heavy and maybe a little warm, but looked otherwise normal.

By then little bro returned form his swim, still in his birthday suit (if you prefer, imagine he was wearing a speedo, but he wasn't shy, and was more practical for a long-term tie-up) and was told to lie face-down, hands behind him. His big brother crossed and tied his wrists with one rope, his ankles with another, and told him they were "magic ropes" that didn't even need to be tied - just a simple hitch and leaving a couple of feet loose at each end. Then a certain amount of tickling was done to insure that the ropes were secure (and to kill time) and the loose ends tied together into a hogtie. A bit more tickling (by which time the epoxy should have "kicked" and become solid) then we left him and went to enjoy our campfire.

By the time we went to bed, he'd loosened his hogtie (which we expected) but was unable to unwrap any of the ropes - there didn't seem to be a knot, but the loops around his wrists and ankles held their shape as if they were solid - which they were. Basically, "fibreglass" consists of strands polyester strands saturated in epoxy, and we had created fibreglass handcuffs. There was no way he'd be getting free without a saw.

Which brought us to the next morning (yes, he'd slept tied hand and foot, and we fed him breakfast in the morning then carried him to a tree for his business) to the realization that we hadn't brought anything capable of cutting fibreglass! Our knives could nick the outside cover of the rope until we hit the epoxy, and the inner core was now completely solid and hard as rock.

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Great cliffhanger not being to untie little Bro, what will he do, whatever will he do? Squirm like a worm squeal like squirrel, moan whimper, toss and turn, loke tied up little brother should.

Please continue its a great story.

[Redman]

EDIT: smartassery discarded, after reminding myself that this is the fiction section.