Eve felt a little nervous as she walked into the room and closed the door behind her. The many hours spent online letting videos and faceless chat partners hypnotise her didn't quite prepare her for doing these things in real life, or so it felt right now... But Haidar seemed like a sweet man when she met him over coffee yesterday to talk everything through, beautiful dark eyes and a lovely voice and all.
He was already waiting for her in the room, sitting on the couch, laying out a pocketwatch, a crystal pendant and some other shiny things on the coffee table. The moment they made eye-contact, he started to smile radiantly.
"Eve! I'm so thrilled we're finally doing this. That's a very pretty blouse."
She walked up to the couch with her hands in the pockets of her skirt. "What? This old thing? It's too tight, I'm always afraid that one button is going to pop off." She pulled her long ponytail forward over her shoulder, so that her hair wasn't stuck between her back and the couch as she sat down.
"That's kinda why I like it." He chuckled. "Is that ok?"
She blushed. "Yes. Thank you."
"We talked about lots of things yesterday." Haidar said as he gently laid his hand on her knee. "That you'd be ok with me touching you, among other things. But you didn't tell me your safeword."
"This is my safeword." Eve raised her finger in the air, like a student in school who wanted to ask a question. "This is what comes naturally to me when I need your attention, when I need to interrupt you. It means I would like to speak. And just giving me space to tell you what I need is enough."
"Thank you, that's very helpful." Haidar pointed at the pretty objects he had put on the table. "Is there something here you would like me to hypnotise you with?"
Eve wiggled on the couch for a moment, looking at the shinies while keeping her hands in her lap. Then she bit her lip and said: "The crystal, please."
Haidar grinned. "An excellent choice, miss." And he picked the crystal pendant up by the chain and let it hang down from his hand.
Eve giggled. "I've thought of the trigger I'd like."
Haidar looked at her, sitting there with her knees together and her skirt draped over the couch around her. In the soft light of the veiled window behind the couch, her blouse was slightly transparent and the many freckles on her skin were visible through it. He smiled and focused on her pretty face again. "Please tell me."
"Drop like a stone." She said with a bashful smile.
Haidar smacked his lips. "That's a delicious phrase I'm going to enjoy saying."
Eve giggled. "I thought you might."
"Why don't you recline and relax as you stare at my crystal?" He said as he lifted the pendant up above her eye height. "You can trust that I remember everything we talked about and that this is just preparation. You can just stare and relax."
Her pretty eyes opened further, crossing ever so slightly to focus on the crystal. Her lips parted as she breathed out. She let her hands slide off her lap onto the couch.
"There's a word I would like you to think about while you stare and relax, Eve. One word, nothing more. You can just ruminate on it as your eyes are held captive by the crystal, and as I speak to your mind, guiding you deeper into a hypnotic trance. The word is 'Fascinated'." Haidar let his voice slip into a soft, dreamy tone, where the melody and the cadence of the words were more important than the meaning of the words. "What does it feel like to be fascinated by my crystal? Think about what this word describes. Your eyes locked on the crystal as it spins, glistening in the sunlight. Enchanted. Captivated. How does it feel to be fascinated? Your thoughts just as trained on the crystal as your eyes are. Nothing else going on in your mind as every word I say just hypnotises you deeper and deeper."
Haidar kept a close eye on her reactions. The muscles in her face started to relax, giving her an open, dazed expression as she stared at the pendant. Her shoulders started to slump against the back of the couch, and her head swayed ever so slightly, as if it was held up by a string, just like the pendant.
"And as you sit there, so fascinated and entranced, your body seems to get heavier and heavier. As if your muscles have forgotten how to move. Your limbs so heavy and limp and helpless as you stare, fascinated. Your body seems to sink further and further out of reach, heavier than stone, impossible to move, as you sink deeper and deeper, helplessly fascinated."
Slowly, her legs sagged apart and her mouth fell open. She looked so beautiful and vulnerable right now. Haidar shivered with excitement as he watched her and continued to weave his words into a hypnotic narrative.
"And now that your mind is so focused on being fascinated, I would like you to think about your trigger. Drop like a stone. In a moment, I will use that trigger for the first time. I will snap my fingers to make it stronger. And when I do that, you will. Drop like a stone. Deeper into trance, deeper even than you are now. Your body, limp and paralysed, will drop like a stone. Sudden and heavy. Even when I say these words later, no matter how awake you are then, no matter what you're doing, you will drop like a stone."
There was a visceral reaction every time he said the trigger, twitches travelled over her skin and her body kept on slumping more and more. Her eyelids drooped and her mouth hung open in a vacant expression. She was ready.
Haidar fumbled to put the pendant away so he could snap his fingers, but she was blissfully unaware. He poised his hand in front of her face, ready to snap. "So deep now. So fascinated. And now, you drop like a stone!" He snapped his fingers in a downward motion.
