Diane Spencer worked a normal job in the city of Chicago, Illinois. Just out of college, this normal job to which she normally walked was the best she could do. Regardless, she found it to be far more cost-effective for her to walk instead of own a car, plus the fact that she was able to stroll through a beautiful park both coming from, and going to, work.
It was late on a Friday night, and Diane was forced to work well into the night hours to finish a presentation due for Monday. She sure as hell didn't want to work on it over the weekend, although she had blown off her best friend already tonight. She looked at the clock on her office wall, which read 11:34 pm, and said to herself, "To hell with it all. I'm tired, and I'm going home."
She strolled out of her office building and made the first half of her 35 minute walk, which brought her to the park. It was a midsummer night with a nice breeze, so she slowed her pace a bit. As she walked past the central large clump of trees, she heard something rustling around. She knew there were no animals in this park, it was in the middle of urban Chicago, for God's sake. She leaned in to investigate, and something grabbed her ankles.
Something grabbed her, and she couldn't tell exactly what it was. Soon, however, her vision adjusted to the darkness of the inside of the small alcove of trees, and she looked down to see vines tangled around her ankles. She thought out loud, "Vines?" She then followed her gaze to the source of the vines, which was an unusual-looking tree, set right in the center of the alcove where it could not be seen from the outside. She thought momentarily that she had just tripped over the vines, and tried to stand up. Quickly, the vines tangled tighter around her ankles and pulled her to the ground. One thick vine forced its way into her mouth, and that was when she knew that something weird was going on.
It was no time at all before 4 other vines snaked out from the tree looming over her and methodically tore all of her clothes off. She would have yelled, but the thick vine in her mouth restricted her speech. She was surprised she could even breathe, thanking God that her sinus infection had recently cleared up, as the vine seemed to be shaping itself to fill her entire mouth. She felt the 4 smaller vines trace paths up her legs to her inner thighs, which made her shiver. She reached down and grabbed one of the vines: it was slimy and very slippery. At this, the vine she grabbed and one other immediately tangled around her arms and pinned them to the ground. The two vines tangled around her ankles pulled her legs as far apart as they would go, and Diane began to panic. There wasn't much she could do, being completely restricted, but she struggled, nonetheless, albeit fruitlessly.