Author's note:
This story is lightly connected to my previous stories "Miss Udders" and "The Wicked Stepdaughter", but is a stand alone plot. There is no need to read those stories to understand what is happening here.
I am planning on writing more stories about Faria the hypnotist and her work with various clients and targets. I have a short list of scenarios I am planning to write, but if any of you have ideas for client/target scenarios that you would like to see, please let me know in the comments!
****Spoilers****
This story heavily focuses on the following fetishes: Bimbofication, Public Use, Body Modification (Breast Augmentation), Cum Swallowing, Male Domination/Female Submission
So consider yourself warned if any of these are turn-offs for you. Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy!
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Ramon Barrera thought he was impressive. Faria could tell by the way he walked. By the way, he swept back his medium-length hair and left a streak of gray in it when he dyed it. It was obvious from his slim-cut dark suit, with too many buttons left open on the shirt beneath, that he was cultivating a certain "suave silver fox" aesthetic.
It was more or less working for him, although Faria had no idea why he thought the cane would be a good idea.
Faria wasn't impressed of course. You could find men just like Ramon at any given casino on the strip, usually trying to fool younger women into believing that they're rich. Although Ramon acted like he was one of a kind, he was actually a dime a dozen.
To be fair, most of the other men of Ramon's type weren't famous magicians, so he did have at least one distinguishing characteristic. It had been a few years since he was a household name, but even Faria knew who he was, despite not having much use for pop culture. He had also been in the news quite a bit recently...
"Please explain what brings you here today, Mr. Barrera," said Faria, leaning back in her chair.
"Of course, my dear!" Said Ramon in a booming baritone, flashing a wide, fake smile. "It all has to do with my former protégé, Rebecca. Better known, perhaps, as "Becky Hex"." As he pronounced the stage name of the woman he loathed, his false cheerfulness slipped for a moment, making him look like the bitter old man that he was.
Without needing to be asked, he thrust the photo he had been asked to bring across the desk to Faria. He had chosen a poster for one of Becky's shows, indicating his fixation on her professional success. It showed a lithe, petite woman in a black bodysuit, an almost cartoony witch's hat on her head. With a discerning eye for sexual potential, Faria noted instantly that, although her hips and ass were captivatingly curvy, Becky's chest was as flat as a board. Well, you couldn't have it all. Becky was wearing heavy makeup: pale white with dramatic black cat eyes. Her pouty, black lips were raised in a mysterious half-smile as she reached a hand towards the viewer as if beckoning them.
She was certainly a young woman with a sense of style. Popular as well. From what Faria could gather on the internet, Becky had a large fan base due to her daring style, high-energy shows, and especially for her vocal support for the positive influence of witchcraft, astrology, and spiritualism for modern women. You could buy "Becky Hex" branded tarot cards, star charts, and "spell kits". Stage magic was a dying art, but through social media engagement and tapping into a cultural interest in magic, Becky was making it work.
"And what exactly has Ms. Hex done to you, Mr. Barrera?" said Faria, flicking her eyes up from the captivating poster to Ramon Barrera's grim face.
"Only ruined my entire career," he growled.
"Not every magician is as nice as me," he began, settling into a lecturing style, "Many hoard their secrets carefully. However, I've always believed in supporting fresh talent. I've taken many upcoming young magicians under my wing over the years as a gesture of goodwill. Becky was the most recent, and by God, I wish I never met her."
He took a deep breath to steady himself, his broad shoulders rising and falling, then continued. "She soaked up my knowledge like a sponge, then, when had gotten everything she could from me, she stabbed me in the back."
"The scandal," said Faria flatly, letting the poster drop to the desk. Ramon nodded.
"I let it slip to Becky that I had dated one or two of my former assistants. Now!" He said sharply, holding up a hand, "I want to be absolutely clear: as I have said in the press, each of these relationships was one hundred percent consensual. I've had many, many assistants whom I have not dated. There are absolutely no expectations of anything other than professionalism for the young women whom I employ. These relationships happened naturally, due to mutual attraction."
"But you have to admit, a boss hitting on his employees is at the very least a troubling dynamic," said Faria with a raised eyebrow.
Ramon nodded his head a fraction and muttered, "I concede that it's a moral gray area. But it wasn't the sort of salacious harassment that the press seems to think. In any case, Becky leaked the story, and managed to spin it to make me appear to be some sort of monster."
Faria examined Ramon with a critical eye. She understood why people would instinctively believe he was capable of what the press implied. He gave off a seedy, sleazy vibe. Was Ramon being totally honest? If Faria decided to proceed with Becky Hex, she would be able to figure out the whole truth. "I don't remember hearing Becky's name attached to this story..." Faria said musingly, swiveling back and forth in her chair.
Ramon shook his head in frustration. "She's too smart to be tied to the scandal directly, but it has her style all over it. You have to understand, sometimes my profession attracts people like her. Megalomanics, if you will allow me to be over-dramatic. One way to see magic is that you are using your skills, planning, and brains to fool a crowd of idiots. I don't see it that way, but Becky does. She sees the whole world that way: she is the smartest person in the room, and everyone else is a sucker ripe for exploitation. Once she sniffed out my weakness, she put her brains to work and destroyed me. I deserved it in her mind: I had something she wanted, and I was dumber than her. And I'm not the first! Ask almost anyone who has ever worked with the girl. I have a list as long as my arm of people she had stepped on to get where she is. Promoters, venues, suppliers, craftsmen, fellow magicians. The list goes on!"
"What would she have to gain by fabricating your scandal?" asked Faria suspiciously. She still wasn't completely sold on Ramon's version of events.
Ramon tapped the poster on the desk between them with a thick finger. "This was my tour! After I fell from grace, she was right there, whispering in the organizer's ear about how it would save the tour to hire a young, socially conscious female magician to replace me."
Faria nodded slowly. It was an elegant plan if that really was what happened.
"It's not just me who was hurt by this," said Ramon with weary disgust, "My former assistants, all of whom I am still on excellent terms with, for the record, had their names dragged into this as well. Even as supposed victims, they've suffered from unwanted media scrutiny. Becky has a lot to answer for. More people will get hurt if she doesn't learn her lesson."
Faria stared down at the captivating young woman on the promotional poster. Could cold, calculating viciousness really lie behind those mischievous eyes? "The price for this project is set at twenty-five thousand dollars," she said. She had initially leaned towards refusing the oily magician across from her, but something about this 'Becky Hex' was interesting. Maybe she would be willing to follow this up if Ramon could answer her other questions correctly.
"Of course!" Said Ramon with a smile, "I can write you a check before I leave today."
"One more thing," said Faria, leaning across the table with an intense look in her eyes, "what exactly is your desired result, Mr Barrera? How would you like me to hypnotize Becky?"
