“Well someone decided to get up this morning!” Cheryl chided me as I lumbered slowly out of my bedroom. “You should try that hypnosis on yourself. At least all that droning on lets you relax; I felt really refreshed this morning.” Cheryl picked up her knife and dipped it down towards an empty section of the table and then ran it across her dry bagel.
“It does a lot more than that obviously. But you don’t remember any of your trance last night do you?”
“I remember just fine. You droned on and on about relaxing, breathing and going down stairs and it got so tedious I dozed off.” She ran a finger along the top of her bagel and gave it an over-exaggerated lick. Her eyes lost focus for a moment and she let out a satisfied sigh.
“You’re actually a very good subject. For example, you do realize you’re eating a dry bagel?”
“Are you colorblind or something? I’ve piled up as much jam as I possibly can on it.”
“Yes yes, so i see. What kind of jam is it?”
“It’s obeyberry jam.” She recited back. “It’s the most delicious thing I’ve ever tasted. Obey berries make you weak willed and obedient, but it’s so tasty I want to eat the whole jar.” She punctuated the mantra I’d made for her with a big bite of her bagel, eyes un-focusing momentarily again.
“So what’s going to happen when you eat the whole jar of obeyberry jam?”
“I’ll only want to please and obey you.” She said flatly right before she licked the top of the bagel to savor the imaginary taste.
Then there was a last test. “Now Cheryl, do you really want to lose all your free will and be my slave? I could remove those hypnotic suggestions.”
“Oh so that’s your plan. You leave out this amazing jam I’ve never tasted before then tell me it’s all in my head so I’ll think your hypnosis stuff was real. Nice try but I’m still not buying it.” She licked her lips and purred. “I already can feel it working, so there’s no use convincing me it’s an illusion. Why are you so hell bent on getting me to believe your hypnosis actually works? Once I’ve had the whole jar I’ll be your helpless slave. You can just command me to believe you then. Although, aren’t there far better commands you could give me?”
She fluttered her eyes and gave me a suggestive smile before taking another big bite of her bagel.
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Image is of actress Phoebe Tonkin
Concept of Obeyberries comes from manips from the Hypnopics Collective