After School

Chapter One Searches Excerpt translation from Frankfurter Allegemeine, a major German daily newspaper: VON HOLT DAUGHTER SEARCH ABANDONED Frankfurt, 3July -- Authorities indicated today that they have called off the extended search for missing socialite / heiress, Lucy von Holt, who disappeared last month while traveling from Munich to Amsterdam. Frankfurt police say that the young celebrity heiress and part time fashion model vanished without any clues when she was supposed to have boarded a train in Rosenheim and changed trains in Munich. “All efforts to locate the missing girl have been exhausted,” said Bavarian state police Director, Helmut Kimmell at a short press meeting yesterday in Munich. “We have no leads and no information about her at this time,” Kimmell said. “The case will remain open, but until we have something concrete to go on, we have called off the search.” Attorney Markus v.j. Lubach, representing the girl’s father, Ernst von Holt, told the press today that although there were some indications of foul play, law enforcement officials throughout Europe have found no evidence that a crime was committed, since the woman was twenty years old and no longer considered a minor. The von Holt family has continued to refuse interviews or make any public comments about the case. ______________________________________ Lucy von Holt’s parents, when they finally discovered that their number one daughter had somehow managed to disappear and thus avoid their control of her somewhat less than perfect young life, launched a major search and recovery operation throughout Europe, sparing no expense. In the end, after several months, their efforts resulted in next to nothing. Their erstwhile and footloose daughter had simply disappeared when she boarded the regional train from Rosenheim, Germany to Munich. Although they did not rule out foul play, they could not have possibly imagined that Lucy had been aggressively and forcibly abducted from the train under orders from her frustrated and sexually deprived Dutch boyfriend. They could also not have begun to imagine that Lucy was transported from The Continent to the United States, first to a distribution facility in New York state and then to the prestigious Vermont Riding School. There she expanded her already significant knowledge of the Kink World and became the subject of somewhat unpleasant and esoteric instruction and training in the equestrian arts, with the typically measurable discomfort and emotional distress at being forced to learn new things. Systematically tormented and abused as a part of her curriculum, she was subjected to a wide variety of S&M activities and used for the pleasure of the men and women on the faculty. For a girl who some thought had effectively defended her virginity until she was nearly twenty, this sudden reversal of her s****l fortunes was both mentally and physically challenging. What no one knew was that much earlier in her life, before the young Dutchman entered the picture, Lucy, thanks to her sister, gained considerable insight into this same world. Her grieving parents never imagined the trials she experienced at the Vermont Riding School and they certainly didn’t even consider that after that long and painful education in things equine, she would be once again transported across the Atlantic to attend a special finishing school for young women of the pony persuasion. The trip was made under some duress, as she traveled in something less than first class fashion, consigned to a trans-Atlantic airfreight company that specialized in transporting valuable four legged animals. Her traveling companions were zoo animals, high-end personal pets of royalty and a family of orangutans. Strapped and hooded inside the freight crate, Lucy silently wondered what would become of her. Off-loaded at a less than modern airfreight terminal in Sofia, Bulgaria, she then got a private ride in a delivery truck to her new home.