Sasha looked down at Julia looking up at her, and the sight gave her a thrill of anticipation. Julia looked so beautiful on her knees by candlelight, like she'd been born to assume the position but was only now coming to realize it. Beside her, Valerie knelt on the soft cushions with the grace of one who'd already learned what Julia was just beginning to understand. She stared down at Sasha's ankles; Sasha knew if she lifted Valerie's chin up to meet her gaze, she'd see the glassy stare of someone already halfway entranced. "Are you ready, little one?" Sasha asked.
Julia's eyes darted downwards swiftly. "I think so, Sasha," she said shyly. She gasped a little on hearing her own words. "I mean, um, Mistress. Sorry."
Sasha reached down to stroke Julia's cheek, and smiled gently at the way Julia leaned into the gesture. "It's alright, pet. I don't expect perfection from you right away. That's what training is for. All I need from you is your desire to submit. The rest will all flow from that. And I know you want to submit to me."
Sasha felt Julia shiver under her fingertips. "Yes, Mistress," she said.
"Good girl." Sasha saw Valerie quiver just a little at the words. Even though they weren't meant for her, Valerie had been so deeply, blissfully conditioned by now that simply hearing her Mistress say them gave her pleasure. "That's why I chose you, little one. I could see it inside you. I knew you wanted this. I know what you are capable of becoming, what your deepest self truly wants to become. All that my training will do is refine your natural gift for obedience. What is obedience, Valerie?"
"Obedience is pleasure," Valerie intoned softly. Sasha heard the delicious tone in Valerie's voice that told her that Valerie was already gone, her mind anticipating hypnotic trance so strongly that it had already lost itself without Sasha even having to say a word. Reciting her mantras only reinforced the deepening trance. Next to Valerie, Julia mouthed the words silently; that had been her first lesson, when she'd first started submitting to Sasha a few weeks ago, and she'd accepted it very well.
"Good girl, Valerie," Sasha said, and Valerie visibly shook with pleasure. "Obedience is pleasure. You already knew that, little one, even before you met me. You understand it deep in your heart. All we're doing is teaching you how to obey." Sasha smiled again, this time with a bit of a wicked gleam in her eye. "And this is always my favorite part of training a new pet."
Sasha stepped over to the metronome that rested on the table by the wall. "Remember your first time in this room, little one?"
Julia's eyes locked onto the metronome, already glazing over slightly as she stared helplessly at it. "Yes, Mistress," she said, her voice softening just a little.
"And you remember what the metronome does to you. What it always does to you, little one." Sasha felt her pussy tingle as she watched. Valerie had raised her head to stare as well, now; she'd been submitting to Sasha for years, and the action had become as natural and instinctive to her as breathing. Perhaps even moreso; Valerie could hold her breath with an effort of will, but all her will melted away when Sasha triggered her like this.
"It sends me...deeper..." Julia sighed out. Her voice had almost completely softened into the quiet, dreamy tones of a hypnotized pet.
"Good girl," Sasha said, starting the metronome ticking. Both Valerie and Julia followed the pendulum, their eyes moving in perfect synchronicity as they stared at its rhythmic, regular sway. Sasha sighed happily; there was always something so fucking sexy about watching one of her pets sink into hypnosis, and seeing two of them go under at the same time made it exponentially hotter.
"That's right," Sasha purred, her own voice naturally settling into a hypnotic cadence, "deeper and deeper. Deeper and deeper for me."
"Deeper," the two girls echoed, their eyelids starting to flutter as they continued to follow the motion of the metronome. Julia's head bobbed visibly downwards as she spoke. That was an effect of Valerie's presence, Sasha knew; seeing and hearing someone go into trance right next to her helped to reinforce the seeming irresistibility of the induction. Julia saw Valerie go under and wanted to go along; next to her, Valerie saw Julia go under, and wanted the same thing.
"And sleep," Sasha said. Both girls' eyes slammed shut. On other days, Sasha could have fun drawing out the pleasure of the induction for long minutes (and as a matter of fact had done so) but today, she had other pleasures she'd been anticipating for far too long.