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."
Alexis couldn't remember the last time she contributed anything to the unfolding trance. It felt easier, and right, to remain still and let Dazzling weave a perfect perspective.
"Watching is perfection, as you watch the watch, as your mind, and body, rest in the glow you stand in. Like something seeking warmth, powered by heat. Solar powered, heat-dependent, a perfect machine powered by warm rays and hot words. Perfect machines work perfectly, as does the watch, as does the hand holding the watch."
The hand holding the watch grew perfectly weak, enough to keep it up through the desire to watch it, and a helping hand holding it by the wrist, drawing the watch closer to glassy blue eyes.
"Listening is perfection, as you hear what constitutes perfection. My words describe perfection, spreading it, sharing it, infusing it into empty instruments that operate perfectly under vocal direction, under the direction of my voice. Feel that perfection wash over you. Feel it embody and define you as you let go..."
A jarring sensation of a slack arm succumbing to gravity stirred Alexis momentarily, only to be conditionally prompted of it adding to perfection. She could hardly argue as the watch remained in her face, shining brightly, held up by Dazzling's careful hand.
"Very good Alexis, so very good. Letting go to me feels natural, perfect, as it should be. Because as time will tell you..." Dazzling let warm surface of the sun-bathed watch softly hit the skin between her eyes, making her go cross-eyed before her head lolled downwards. Dazzling deftly kept her head and body from flopping, lightly cackling as she whispered into her ear...
"I got you back, my pretty..."
***
Blurry vision reached clarity at some point. Dreamy sensations slowly crept away to reveal a familiar room. A small sigh escaped lips as she realized she was standing in her living room, her laptop sitting on the coffee table, everything was in place before she left for her second duel with Dazzling. Another sigh left her as she realized she was daydreaming, or rather, she gone through self-hypnosis, trying to go deep into trance to anticipate and prepare for any possibilities she could.
Her mind seemed to come up with one sure-fire way Dazzling could take her, and how it played out in her mind felt good. Really good. Good enough to where she could feel her insides shivering, good enough to where she could feel the outside of her skin radiating pleasure through stillness. Everything as is felt really good, and in her dreamy recovery, she felt little need to move, not even to call out to Cris or Stacy to see what her harem was up to. When she wanted it, she would move or speak.
"Alexa," someone gingerly called out.
"Mmmmmmm"
was the sound she made, hearing that voice. The sound she wanted to make, because she wanted it.
"Give me the time," the voice commanded casually.
"It's 5:28 pm,"
she noted, eyes darting to the wall clock nearby without moving her head. The answering voice surprised her, resembling or imitating a chipper, cheerful voice operator happy to do her job. Coincidentally, she was happy to hear herself speak like that, also feeling the urge to speak when spoken to. It was hard to tell which aspect she enjoyed more.
"Wait, what?"
her own voice questioned in the same tone, unbothered unlike the rest of her by the time; the duel was set for 3pm. Had she under self-hypnosis so long that she'd missed it? Did she actually miss it? If not...who's voice was she hearing?"
A lusty chuckle found itself near her listening receptacle. "Gotta love a well-programmed machine," the foreign voice uttered, Dazzling's form stepping into view with an evil smile.
"Though the way it took more than a minute for you to realize your predicament, perhaps you were overloaded with programming. And all that pleasure is making you run slower than normal."
Dazzling looked sexier than ever, still dressed in her suit, a triumphant posture, laying a hand on what felt like an undressed shoulder.
