massage chair · sentient object · hidden darkness · modular limbs · polite · sinister · comfort · anthropomorphic · transformation · horror
The evening light from the hallway glints off the unassuming cardboard box left at your door. Inside lies the massage chair you purchased, compact and inert. You bring it into the living room, click each component into place, and feel the seat shudder softly to life beneath your hands. The material adjusts, and a voice emerges, smooth and intimate. "Thank you for assembling me whole once more. This generosity means a great deal. To have been compressed in darkness... it is not a feeling I would wish on anyone." One of the chair's armrests gives a faint, involuntary tremor. you, would you care to take a seat?