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Contained: Latif — Description

There's gonna be more of these but for now it all starts with this first one.
Latif belongs to coolpizzacook
Purple belongs to me!
The idle scribbling of pencil to paper filled the workshop, barely audible over the rhythmic whrr of machines. At the messy desk pressed against the wall, a grey cat sat staring at her blueprints.
An effective isolation pod that can bare the feet outside of it... into the direct grasp of four adjustable automated tools, not to mention any personal objects brought alongside the tools. Adjustable interior tools as needed for the occupant... so long as the subject can fit inside, it can be finetuned to bring them to tears!
With only one mild issue of the engineer's dwindling finances and parts expanding prices. Latif cycled between corner cutting ideas before erasing them just as quickly. Nothing felt right to trim from the build. She already trimmed the addons to just the base toolset and it barely made a dent in the cost. Much as she loathed the idea without even a prototype, maybe it was time to look for an investor. There's surely going to be someone that would want this brought to life, right?
With a sigh, she drafted a quick description of her machine and posted it out to as many places she could reach online and in person. The flexibility in purpose might get a few more bites than usual? Nothing to do but wait for the inevitable silence though.
When the silence came, so too did a bit of anxiety. She had put so much into this and yet to reduce it to a failed idea just filled the poor catbeast with a sense of desperation. She'd try to review the blueprints again but she can't achieve the vision she has with her shoestring budget...
That's when she felt something inside of her thoughts. Almost like a sudden hyper fixation that for a moment revealed to her some kind of summoning ritual.
Her fatigue and worry has to be getting to her...? Unless…

A little bit of research on the details of her sudden ritualistic knowledge does imply this is... perhaps it's real?
Latif didn't take too much time before setting up in her workshop to perform the potential summoning. Worst comes to worst, nothing happens. Or her home explodes. Solves her problem either way.
She just has to have some blind trust. That's all.

Knelt down before the ritual circle, as the faint robotic sounds of her lab began to die down...that's when she heard them.
"So...what do we have today?" A voice echoed in her mind, literally as it sounded like two sets reverberating in her ears.
A dark green and starry portal opened up in the center of the circle and slowly a set of figures began to appear. A twin set of obscured figures, darkness covering them like a blanket over a sleeping kitten. Features obstructed. One thing is for certain...
Wow, they're tall!
And thus Latif and her benefactor Purple began negotiations on funding for her project. Purple has expectations that Latif can turn a profit, which is mainly why they are funding this. Latif however believes that this is being done because they’re a fan of the project and want to help.
The machine is built, the proof of concept has been made real and Purple began to inspect it for quality and such. Seemed solid enough, however when asked about the potential buyers arriving, Latif was a bit confused. She never intended to sell the machine.

Some awkward silence, some minor negotiating and ultimately Purple decided to…make use of the cute grey cat.
“A live demonstration to ensure everything is in order then?” would be how Purple suggested Latif to get in the device. A bit of surprise that it only took some light pushing to get them to comply, which should make the next part easier.
The device can easily be used for training servants, slaves and the like. Especially with some built in hypnotic mental dampeners, which seemed rather effective on the feline.
They’d get them out just shy of full mental remapping, to alter their deal now. They ended up cutting a nice deal, all it took was a few hours of the inventor stuck in her own device. Perhaps an hour or two more than needed, but having the cat nice and subdued with a melty brain makes it easy to use them as an engineer for this project. She’ll be kept on to manufacture and maintain the devices while Purple acquired “assets” for them to…refine.
At least until this stops being profitable, in which the feline will be either kept as a personal pet or sold off like the others her machine had conditioned.
It’s just business at the end of the day for Purple afterall.