Over the course of the day Tina left Lara alone. She had apparently tested most of the limits of Lara's current programmation already without realising it. Tonight Ms. Baker would add to them however and tomorrow she was going to have coffee with the woman to get a detailed briefing on Lara's programmation.
While Tina didn't bother her Lara's day wasn't any easier. It had been about a week since she had kept a journal on the feet of everyone she saw and in that time she hadn't once noticed a worse pair than hers. This realisation had completely swept away her sense of superiority, her safety net, her way to feel confident. As a result Lara was more stressed out than she had ever been. She needed her therapy session more than ever.
When the time of her appointment finally arrived Lara practically rushed out of the office straight to her car and to Ms. Baker's office, unbeknownst to her straight to her doom. Rushing up the stairs in her building Lara made her way to the office space and just like usual barged in without knocking. The moment she walked in however she blacked out completely.
Ms. Baker just smiled, having called Lara a stupid slut once more sending her straight into a deep trance. Oh this would never get old. Ms. Baker was rather excited about today, that call yesterday had scared her senseless, but in the end she had a new ally in her journey of destroying Lara for what she had done to Megan and all those other people. An ally she very much wanted to impress so for today she had reserved another hour in her planning just for Lara. There was a lot to do and no time to waste.
Today would serve as a test as well, a test to see how extensive her control over the woman was. If she was correct the constant deepening of her trance and the fact that her subconscious by now was getting used to taking commands from her voice should make Lara way more receptive. Paired with the added time Ms. Baker had arranged for this meeting she should be able to give Lara more changes and more drastic ones. In any case whether everything would stick or not was something for Tina to figure out during the week.
The worst that could happen was that the overload of new commands was too much for Lara to handle in one session and that none of them would stick creating a slight set back in her plans, essentially losing a session. What she hoped for however was that the commands would stick which would in turn mean that she could keep up the added commands and hugely speed up her initial plans. It was only a minor risk for a possibly huge reward so Ms. Baker was more than happy to take it.
"Welcome Lara, why don't you close the door behind you and strip before taking place on the couch as usual? Before you do that can you please hand me over your notebook with this week's observations?" Ms. Baker commanded in her soothing voice, taking the notebook which was promptly handed to her. While Lara stripped down Ms. Baker snapped quick pictures of all pages, smirking broadly as she read the very extensive observation about her own feet.
When Lara took place on the couch Ms. Baker turned her full attention to the woman now only clad in lingerie though. "Alright Lara, I see you have observed rather than assumed you were better than everyone else? What were your conclusions?" She asked softly, projecting the observations Lara had made about feet on her as a person to feed into her self-doubt and create a feeling of inferiority. Small words and nuances could make a huge difference when using hypnosis.
"I found that I'm not as perfect after all, in fact I was unable to find anyone less perfect than I am." Lara said in a monotone soulless voice, projecting her observations about feet on herself as a whole like Ms. Baker had done when posing the question.
"See Lara, that's what you get for just assuming without actually observing. You should continue to observe constantly before you make any assumptions in the future. On another note how did those findings make you feel? What effects did they have on you?" Ms. Baker asked loving where this was going. It seemed that last week's commands had prepped Lara for what Ms. Baker wanted to accomplish than she had initially hoped for.
"It made me feel worthless, inferior, nervous, stressed and full of self-doubt. I didn't even dare show my feet to the pedicurist which in turn only made things worse, my nails not being recently done made my imperfection worse." Lara said and while it was clear that she was feeling down about herself and stressed her tone remained flat under the hypnosis.
"Now Lara, there is no need to feel all those things. You being inferior doesn't have to mean you are worthless, that you need to doubt yourself, that you need to be nervous or stressed. You can perfectly be inferior, but worth a lot to your superiors. I'm certain there are a lot of things you could do for them that would be useful and make you very worthily to them. You shouldn't ponder over how worthless you are, instead you should search for opportunities, opportunities to show your worth to your superiors." Ms. Baker started out, her questions had mainly just been to reinforce and shape Lara's perception of herself, to mould her towards the things she wanted to get through to the woman. She was determined to get Lara to think of herself as inferior and about others as her superiors. Lara's tendencies to use everything and everyone to feel better about herself Ms. Baker tried to shift to a mindset of how she could be useful to everyone to feel better about herself.
"You'll see, if you're really useful to someone they'll praise you and being praised by a superior means you're not useless. It confirms your worth and you should very grateful for all the praise you get. It's addicting, something to chase after, something to crave. You need that praise to know you're not worthless, getting praised by your superiors is your only way to feel worth something." Ms. Baker spoke, it was the perfect command. Lara's continued observation would keep feeding into her sense of inferiority which would feed her craving for praise which in turn would lead her to devolve into doing more and more extreme things to get such praise. After all she might get praised for doing something mundane the first couple of times simply because people weren't used to her doing such things, but as that became the new norm the praise would stop coming and Lara would need to find something else to get praised over.
It was the perfect vicious circle, a command designed to make Lara fall deeper without further work. On top of that it would also help make the people who Lara now considered superior feel superior over her which in turn would lead them to be more demanding towards Lara, to treat her as being inferior to them.
