Merry Mill ran a drop-in child service area as a special service for customers, a safe room with toys and snacks where parents could leave their child while they were busy shopping. This is where Summer and Mouse were now headed - though Mouse understandably objects to the idea...
"I'm not a baby!" she sulked, feeling insulted. "Mom knows I can look after myself! If she lets you off on your own then why do I have to be stuck in some stupid playground?"
"Yeah we KNOW you can Mouse, but mom thought maybe it'd be safer and you'd enjoy it more too if..."
"Mom has the stupidest ideas. I'm going with you. That's final."
At this point they reached the entrance, where a middle-aged lady was waiting for them with a broad smile.
"Oh, you must be little Mouse. Oh, my, look at you" she said, pointing at her flip-flops. "you have the cutest little toes! I'm so envious!"
Mouse eyed her suspiciously.
"Piss off lady. I haven't agreed to any of this."
"Eh heh heh..."Summer interrupted. "She can be a little foul-mouthed, but I'm sure she's going to like it here..."
"Oh, absolutely!" the daycare staff lady went. "We've got everything here: board games, hoops and jump ropes, books, music..."
"Hmpf." Mouse was unimpressed.
"We also - I'm only telling you this secret - have some special toys only for the best little children in the back room..."
She bent down and whispered something into Mouse's ear.
Mouse's eyes opened wide.
"You know what Summer? I think this is a good idea after all. You can go and I will stay here."
"Okay suddenly, I'm not so sure about this." Summer said.
"Mouse, what's gotten into you?"
"What? I just think this lady is very nice."
She hugged the older woman's leg and flashed her best shit-eating grin at Summer.
"Ookay...Maybe I should come in with you just to check on everything..."
Mouse wrinkled her face.
"What, you wanted to leave me here and now you don't want to? I told you I'd be fine."
"Well if you says so." Summer said. "If anything happens, just call mom or I'll be back in an hour or two OK?"
"Yeah yeah sure. No need to rush."
Summer gave them one more weirded-out glance, shook her head in disbelief and ran.
The older lady patted Mouse on the shoulder.
"So, would you rather see the toys in the back now or...?"
"Yup."
They walked to the back room where Mouse jumped for joy. It must've been used as a storage room because it contained all sorts of large plastic parts, presumably from jungle gyms, toy castles or the like. But the most interesting item was in the back where two of those plastic parts had been attached to a stretcher, forming crude foot stocks.
While the two plastic slabs were too weak to be able to seriously restrain anybody especially an adult, they could probably trap a child for a while before they could free themselves.
Mouse squeaked and ran up to it. She slipped out of her flip-flops and quickly climbed on board, slipped her feet into the device and and stretched out on the padded mattress.
"There's noone else coming for the next hour so we can have plenty of fun, whatever you like." the lady said sweetly. Mouse's plump little feet looked adorable, she just wanted to caress and fondle them.
Mouse was pleased with herself. A whole hour of tickling and neither mom nor Summer can complain or interrupt her.
She lay back and stretched her soles, ready for the wonderful feelings to come.
Where should the story go now?