"Tell Me."
Eyes distracted the attention to take away the need to keep his lips tight. They loosened, quivered, and spoke the name almost breathlessly.
"Psiana..."
"Tell Me."
Striker's mid-section convulsed as Scryer's voice conveyed what he believed to be slight scorn for speaking that name so close to passionately.
"Mmmmm, Scryerrr..." his reaction was undeniably breathless, and felt elation in the smile of the next repeating.
"Tell Me."
The blue, shiny crystal swung at his eyes until his mind was just focused on telling whatever there was to tell. Psiana had met him again, looking to probe him verbally this time rather than using her powers to scan his mind. She asked about Scryer; apparently she was gaining a reputation around town, a point of concern amongst the city's superheroes. Claims ranging from strange black outs, periods of time missing from memory, and just plain strangeness seem to surround reports of the sorceress. Just like with Striker, it scared them that she neither definitively identified as heroine or villainess. The consensus sent Psiana to investigate the person she was closest to.
Striker's words reflected exactly what he told Psiana, how he understood the concern, but there was no immediate cause for it with her. She seemed more curious than anything else, certainly not malicious unless provoked. The hero spoke to the point of defending the witch without even realizing it. Suddenly becoming aware of exactly what he was saying, his mind came back to him as the crystal opened his mind to the memories of earlier in the day.
He remembered in detail why of all heroes she chose him, and hoped she remembered half of the exploits she centered around him and only him, hoping that her curiosity with him would be contained with just him.
"Tell Me."
Scryer obviously wanted to know what was on his mind, so he stuck to the day's events rather than his thoughts.
"Psiana was surprised at my defending you, she seemed to be in telepathic contact with some of the other prominent heroes about our talk as we spoke, directly reporting back to them, or letting us hear the conversation in real-time. I guess the heroes weren't satisfied enough with what I had to say, so the next phase was to stealthily probe my mind. It would've been stealthy, and I guess I wasn't even supposed to know it was happening, but I did."
"I knew because something struck me the moment it happened. Not something she did; something you did."
"Tell Me." Such glee in her voice; she knew exactly what he had to tell, but was quite enjoying hearing it from him.
"You set some sort of trap in me. If she tried to access things, some spell you planted in me would guard my mind, putting me back under your power, and reflecting off me and into her. Before my lights went out, I saw her eyes go wide, like something had hit her. The way her shoulders sagged, and the light in her eyes dimmed, I knew it was you that hit her."
The clear accusation in his voice did not approve of an admittedly crafty trap Scryer laid, not as intense because he wasn't done thinking of the breadth or effect of her plan.
"But she recovered quickly, and..."
The arm that rose to brandish the blue crystal again didn't agree with him, because he knew he was trying to lead the narrative elsewhere. His speech paused as he followed the crystal, futilely fighting sinking back into a mindless state. Thinking was hard as his eyes went back and forth over and over again, concerned more with the shining facets, then closing his heavy eyes, then giving an accurate account against his will.
Scryer's trap sprung when Striker and Psiana were still linked mentally. As their conscious selves dimmed, they became aware on the inside. Striker felt the strong part of his mental self, the part that Scryer always sensationalized about him, form his avatar inside Psiana's mindscape. It seemed less sensationalized as he found Psiana's avatar looking blank and vulnerable, practically in her own domain. She floated rudderless in the void of the colorless space, unaware of even Striker's presence. Shaking off the effects of Scryer's magic was frustrating, urging her awake by the shoulders, his yelling and pleading way to minor glints of hope in her eyes, only for those to flicker away at the pleasure of her trance state pulling her back down. Striker never gave up, finally believing she was only the right encouraging word away from resistance, until he said the witch's name aloud.
The blonde suddenly gasped, as if realizing why she felt so mindless. Her pink lips didn't move, but her mind whispered Scryer's name into the expanse, muting nearly everything else, Striker's voice gradually drowning out. None of his words or efforts registered to the psychic anymore, just a boost of pleasure making eyes rolling in the back of her head, as the head slumped forward. Striker brought her head back up to see a dreamy smile plastered on her face, how she must've looked if Scryer would reward her for obedience. Soon, the sound of whispers filled the mindscape again, but from a voice that was in-control of the situation, and gaining control of those there to listen. Another gasp make the vigilante look down to see Psiana's hand stroking herself through the costume to the prevalent words, the wet spot of the fabric growing more soaked. Striker realized that it was Psiana broadcasting Scryer's whispers, making all of this happen, reacting to being in Scryer's power.
The mental connection Striker felt expanded, as others were connecting to their link. She was somehow reaching out to others amidst her bewitched, aroused state; outlines of other figures looked vague at first, then grew more detailed as he noticed capes, gauntlets, helmets, armor, weapons - the city's heroes, the ones requesting Psiana's interrogation of Striker. Worry hit Striker harder as he realized Psiana might have been connected with the heroes the whole time to report her findings directly, leaving them open to her in her compromised state. His worry came true as he paid attention to the forming facial and bodily features he could, acknowledgment of Psiana's link to their minds, then confusion at how her powers went beyond mind speech, and imprinted feelings, a specific disposition she was more than happy to share, pushing away rational thoughts they became as blank as their avatars became fully-formed. All the while, Scryer's voice was the dominant occupant in the space, pushing everyone ever deeper into trance, with Striker being the lone resistor. He watched in utter defeat as they all smiled and stroked their arousals shamelessly and all on the witch's inadvertent behalf. He knew being the last made no difference, that eventually he would be overcome like the rest. It was a minor surprise to find his own hand also beginning to stroke himself, being surrounded by Scryer's voice, cognizant of nothing else, no one else.
Before the erotic haze of remembering what happened in the mindscape could blur his senses any further, panic set in as he woke up back to being bare and still on the bed.
Striker's eyes went wide not only with the implication that she'd struck the city's superheroes yet again, but also realizing there was a gap in his memories from Psiana's interrogation to Scryer's interrogation; for all he knew, they were still under Scryer's power at that moment.
"Tell Me."
He ignored her words and pleasure they tried to elicit in him. Striker felt he had to as a lot more seemed at stake now; she probably could have taken the heroes at her leisure all at once, but her personality seemed barely interested with what she found. Having them all and not knowing it, who knows what kind of puppet show she'd suddenly be inspired to conjure up.
"Uh...you probably pissed them off with your little stunt. Your reputation with the heroes doesn't seem favorable anymore."
"Tell Me." The measured sternness in her voice told him she wasn't buying it, laced with utter amusement in why he bothered trying to deceive her anymore.
"They're probably as upset with me now as they are you, I'm probably not invited to any more super meetings."
"Tell Me." Her voice chuckled at his attempt to turn the conversation elsewhere. At that point, he hated how someone who'd been in his mind time and time again was slowly extracting information out of his willing and unwilling mind, letting his consciousness stew in how helpless he was.