CH 10.
Continuing story of Stephen who sees emotions as vivid colour. In this chapter Stephen works on influencing other emotional states.
As always comments and thoughts most welcome, really want to hear what you think.
All characters are over 18 years of age
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It was approaching lunch time and I thought I'd head down to the staff cafeteria. The staff 'caf' was not the best place to eat but it would be a good place to sit and ponder the weirdness that has been my world lately. I left my cubicle and headed towards the lift.
I arrived at the 'caf', same old selection of fruit, sandwiches and hot food. I ordered a curry with basmati rise, paid and took a seat at a vacant table. How to really understand my potential I thought. How do I break down this problem? At least in some instances it appears that I am able to influence others behaviour.
The first question in my mind was what the limits of that influence might be? Can I influence someone to act in a way that that was the opposite of their heart felt conviction? Or can I only nudge people in a direction they are already predisposed towards?
The second question was whether I can influence emotional state beyond general horniness. The problem with that of course that its incredibly hard to discern one emotional state from another. I only managed to discern this factor by accident. Although now I was feeling far better placed to make further progress in other areas.
I decided to concentrate on the second problem first. What I needed to do was find enough candidates that had a similar and relatively unambiguous emotional states. Some would be easier than others. Annoyance and maybe anxiety are more overt and would be easier to detect. Trust or distrust and fear would be more difficult.
I finished lunch and headed back upstairs to work feeling satisfied that I had a plan of attack. My first thought was that annoyance should be pretty easy to detect in this place, everyone is basically annoyed at something most of the time. The trick will be to amplify that annoyance. But who and how?
I parked the thought for a while and got to work on a draft of the opening presentation I had been tasked to write for Helen. We were going to be meeting twice a day until the job was done and had another meeting planned last thing in the day. I wanted to be on top of my brief and had to at least have a storyboard outline of the key points. After a time, I was satisfied that I had the right structure for the slide pack presentation and was reasonably prepared for any questioning I might receive in our team meeting.
It was nearing 4:00pm and I decided to grab a coffee on the way to the meeting. I walked into the staff kitchen and found Geoff and Gary discussing their aspect of the bid process. I smiled inwardly to myself. Both of them were assholes. They were in a perpetual competition between themselves and with everyone else. Always trying to take credit, avoid blame, and wouldn't hesitate to throw anyone under a bus to save themselves. I was so glad I didn't have to work with them.
Helen is pretty perceptive and it's entirely possible that she threw them together on purpose. A purple haze wafted between them. They were bickering about the method of cost analysis for the bid.
I got my coffee and proceeded to the meeting room. Angela and Maisy were already seated, they were working on the people change program. They were both lovely girls and inseparable. As I greeted them they looked up, smiled, and an easy warm green glow emanated from them. Others were quietly filing in the room, Geoff and Gary were now seated directly opposite Angela when Helen arrived.
In usual style for Helen's afternoon meeting she did a quick whip around the room asking how the various teams were performing, the status of activities and whether there were any blockers. Each person gave Helen their update when she finally turned to Geoff. Clearly things in his space were not going well. His Purple haze turned Grey and he explained that Angela had not provided the necessary change plan in time and he was now running late. Angela looked shocked and before she could respond Gary chimed in, also turning Grey, he continued on with a scathing attack on the girls.
Their haze turned Purple, then White as they tried to explain that both Gary and Geoff had the data since this morning. They could hardly speak without getting cut off by one of the men. Knowing the 4 well and having been on the end of their bogus claims more than once, I thought I had a handle on where the truth probably lay. Helen on the other hand had no idea, and merely tuned to the women and told them they needed to think of the team, and not just concentrate on their own work. Angela and Maisy were obviously crushed, their hew turned to orange, and they didn't try and respond any further. Gary and Geoff smiled to one another and turned green. Completing the roundup Helen brought the meeting to a close. Everyone was filing out of the room, Geoff could not help himself and told Maisy to get a move on with the data.
Both the women turned white, drew a breath and said, "You asshole, you know you have the data." A purple flux overtook them.
The men laughed, turning a bright green. Then tuning grey, Geoff said, "Just get it done stupid."
I could not believe what I had witnessed, the exchange provided a lot of insight, I couldn't be 100% sure, but knowing the people involved, the high stakes we were dealing with, I was sure Geoff and Gary were lying.
It was now after 5:00pm and being on top of my work, I decided to leave for the day. It wasn't long before I got home. I entered the house through the back door and found mom preparing dinner. She was wearing a tee-shirt and tight short shorts. Clearly no bra and the shorts were disappearing into her ass crack, with half her cheeks falling out the bottom. I liked this new uninhibited lifestyle we all seemed to be embracing.
I walked up behind her and gave her a hug. I grabbed a handful if tit, giving them a firm squeeze while pressing my hardening cock into her ass. She sighed and pushed her ass back into my groin. Just then dad walked in.
"Getting a head start are we?" he said.
"No but if it's on offer," I replied
The double entendre was not lost on anyone and we all laughed. I disengaged from mom displaying my obviously hard cock. There was a flood of yellow haze, but I decided to slow it down till after Jen got home from work.
"I think I'll grab a shower before dinner," I said, and made my way upstairs.
