Riding up the elevator of the hotel, Mistress Alexis stood alone inside it, enjoying the gradual pace it took to reach her floor. Dressed in the same suited attire as before, the redhead's posture was comparatively much more confident than the last time she was there, exuding a hint of domineering anyone close enough to her could instinctively sense like a heady fragrance. The nervousness tied to the first friendly duel with Dazzling Lady was all but gone, and the calmness in her demeanor hid her giddiness well. She took several deep breaths from the car ride, to the lobby, and riding up the elevator, trying to suppress that giddiness, but it continued to flare, unbothered by relaxation attempts. It even managed to escape into a small, almost sultry chuckle, the kind a predator would making humoring a prey before attacking.
Walking into a rematch with an opponent the likes of Dazzling Lady, Alexis would have let herself obsess over the kinds of retaliation she could expect. Sneaky tactics, bluntly bulldozing over her own attempts, most rumors concerning DL meant that she had so many ways she could take someone down to an unpredictable degree; really the only thing predictable about her is that she was effective, as she'd almost witnessed first-hand several times. All those things should've been taken into account with much more fervor, but as the elevator doors opened to the designated top floor, her confidence only grew stronger.
She checked her phone, noting that she was almost five minutes late from the arranged meeting time before she knocked on the door. She could've used her key to enter the room, but it was more fun to have her former, soon-to-be-renewed hypnotist pet open the door, giving a look that tried hiding breathlessness with annoyance.
"I can't believe the watch-wielding hypnotist is faltering in punctuality," Dazzling joked, chuckling.
"A Mistress is never late; she is always on time, and the world must keep up with her. You're being early pleases this one for sure," Alexis chuckled back through a beguiling smile, visibly toying with the watch's chain, as the silver-gold timepiece resided in her jacket pocket. Bright blue eyes enjoyed watching interested green ones glance down at the chain twisted along Alexis' finger, lingering at the watch she was deeply taken with before and obviously couldn't wait to see again.
"Is that so," Dazzling met Alexis' gaze again.
"Time will tell," Alexis intoned purposefully, enjoying seeing Dazzling's peculiar blink accompany the thoughtless breath she took. The redheaded hypnotist loved seeing that reaction even more than hearing it. Since their last encounter, they'd spoken over the phone several times. One call meant to set up the next rematch blossomed into more topics, growing into a budding friendship and camaraderie each could sense. Their favorite topic was Alexis' victory in the last duel, and the effect that may have lingered in Dazzling.
The brunette constantly made humorous accusations of implanting long-term triggers; those accusations were sometimes ignored, but more times than not, Alexis openly confessed "Yeah, you got me. Or is it that I got you? Which could it be? Which would you like it to be?" Alexis always teased with light hypnotic intonation on the subject, and she always noted the small effect audible from their calls, the way she breathed, the way it took DL cleared her throat on cue or took a few minutes longer to come up with a pithy retort. That subject always predictably ended with Dazzling channeling her sexy wicked witch "I'll get you back, my pretty..." and Alexis answered back with her strongest intonation "Time will tell."
It almost became an accidental trigger she employed every time; at first assuming Dazzling was just playing along, but slowly realizing it was something she succumbed to, and she was more or less convinced she wanted it, following the exact conditions that led to it every time. Dazzling loved the watch before, and continued to want it. Jokes about investing in pocket watches herself didn't fool the blue-eyed hypnotist at all, cultivating a sense of empowerment that Alexis' gave off practically pheromonally.
"So," Alexis began, walking towards the windowed area, letting herself bathe in the afternoon sunlight, gently tugging at the chain. "Are you ready to begin...to fall again?" Alexis crooned.
Dazzling strode up with equal confidence, bringing her amethyst up to view first, eyes still darting downwards to how the lustrous and gleaming the watch could be in strong illumination.
"Like I keep telling you, I will get you back, my pretty..."
"Do your worst, if you can. But as always, my Cassie...time will tell..."
The watch emerged and floated up in a timely fashion with Alexis' words, both pendants now hanging at the eye-level of each woman.
"Because more than anything, you want it, my lovely timepiece, the space and time I control, to tell you wonderful things," Alexis' began, holding back a smirk at seeing Dazzling looking so bedazzled, staring at the sunlit watch, still swinging her own pendant, but at a loss for words all of a sudden.
"This space we inhabit, this moment in time, it's under control, as my watch absorbs the light like it absorbs your vision, illuminating your thoughts...and your memories. Because it feels so good to be back here, reliving this space and time again, where everything is natural, where time will tell you everything you need to know."
"Y-you...you need to watch...the pendant...watch...the watch...the..." Dazzling was so practiced that everything else about her trancing efforts worked without issue. But her face and her speech inhabited another body, or time-traveled back to the last time they stood in that suite.
"And how good does it feel, that all you need to know, is what you are told? Nothing else. No other thoughts, cares, or worries. Simply what you are told. That's all you need. Your mind so at ease with little to do. Let everything else go. You have all the time in the world to relax now, all the time in the world what to be told to do..."
"T-time...watch...the watch..."
"Yes Cassie, that's right, watch the watch. Because time will tell you what to do, as do I."
Alexis grinned at how Dazzling helplessly repeated "time will tell" in-sync.
"Yes, good girl. Time will tell..."
Dazzling echoed her again, seemingly lost in what she was being told.
"And you know what time tells you, don't you?"
A faint, listless smile formed on Dazzling's face.
"Yes...why this works..."
"Why this watch works, my dear...?" Alexis guessed.
"Yes...the ticking...bright light...back and...forth...follow it with your eyes, it's so easy to do."
"Follow...feels...feels good inside...the...watch."
"Yes, Cassie...follow the watch...feel how it feels deep inside the watch...warm and glowy...you can't look away...you must watch the watch...."
"Mmmmm," awash with pleasure, Dazzling arched her back gently, imagining the conditions of the watch she continued following "s-ssooo warm, so glowy...can't look away...must watch...the watch...ticking...ticking inside...feels so gooood...."
Barely aware to each woman, the hand holding the amethyst up lowered to Dazzling's side, fixated more and more on the shiny watch between them, and the conditions of it inside.
"Yes, hear that ticking. Rhythmic like my words, like your breaths. With every tick, with every breath, you go deeper. Listen carefully. Feel warmer. Feel glowier. Breathe deeper. Go deeper."
"Yessss, mmmmmmmmm. Ticking...deeper. Listen carefully. Feel warmer. Feel glowier. Breath deeper. Go deeper," Dazzling moaned, sounding as turned on as she looked anchored to the watch. "So bright...blinding...blanking...but ticking inside...so natural...working...perfectly."
"Yes Cassie, perfectly," Alexis' smiled happy that Dazzling's words were assisting in the increasing depths the hypnotist was sinking into.
"Sooo perfect...watch the watch...work so perfect...ticking inside...glowing inside...working perfectly inside...mmmmmmmmm....automatic...natural and...still...still in the watch...glowing watch...still deep...still deeper...deep in stillness...deeper in stillness...deeper in the glow....still...glowing...deeper."
Alexis sighed, ever-enjoying the sight and especially the sound of Dazzling hypnotizing herself deeper into being her Cassie. The redhead enjoyed seeing more passion creep into her focused visage, when she wasn't noticing how much glow reflected the surface of her watch. It was much easier to see how glowy as the swinging arch of the watch slowed to a crawl.
"Mmmm, yes...it feels so glowy....so wonderful...so exquisite...knowing everything feels natural...everything is natural...everything happening should be happening...perfect and wonderful...working as intended."
The more Dazzling's voice grew in passion, the more confidence in her words shaped the meaning.
"Working like the ticking...endless ticking...endless perfection...endless breathing...endless deepening...watching the watch...every part inside is working perfectly. The more you watch the watch, the more you feel the perfection inside, the more perfect you feel."
"Relaxation is perfection, as intended. Inner parts settling into comfort, mental gears slowing, still producing ticking, in time with words that fill you with ease, that calm and caress, that cradle and condition still mind, still muscles and components, still going deeper."
