Title: Her Own Path
Chapter 5
Classes were going well. Most of it went over things Sophia already knew, but there was always one thing or another that was new to her. It was nothing groundbreaking, but it would always change her perspective on something. Help her break out of the rigid mindset that her family’s training had instilled. That had proved to be her biggest issue. She was something of a one trick pony. Sophia only knew one style, and her mother had made it sound like it was the only style that worked. It would be one thing if that technique was able to work past resistance, but it was trivially easy to avoid falling into trance. It was only effective in the isolated environment of her family’s home.
Out in the rest of the world, things were different. And harder for her. But having had some time to think about it, Sophia realized she enjoyed it. Even her utter failure with the shopkeeper had been invigorating in its own way. It drove her to figure out how to improve her technique and made her more determined. And it made her success all the more satisfying. Hypnotizing Mina had been a thrill. And while the results hadn’t been everything she hoped for, as her programming only appeared to have a light effect on her, it was still far more satisfying than anything she’d done while training with her mother. Because she’d done it on her own. Her own work, her own merit, her own technique. She still had a long way to go in refining and perfecting it, but it was demonstrably more effective than her mother’s style.
Sophia laid back in her bed, thinking about her family. She did miss them, at least a little, mostly Angela. But she now knew she’d made the right decision for herself. And as much as she resented her mother for how she’d smothered her and stunted her growth, Sophia was still grateful to her. She’d taught her the basics and fundamentals of hypnosis, and Sophia had to it it did give her a leg up on learning new things. She just needed to learn how to apply it differently than she’d been taught. So maybe growing up in her family hadn’t been all bad.
Sophia pondered what to try next. Her classes had given her plenty more to think about, and she was itching to try some of what she’d learned. She considered who she should make her next subject. There was always Skye. She was more than willing to be hypnotized, and Sophia’s need to try on a resisting subject was reduced now that she’d gotten Mina. Mina could work as well, but she might not be able to find her except by chance. They’d talked a little more recently, but Mina didn’t seem to hold Sophia in especially high regard, so probably best not to push that. Or she could go out and find someone new. It had already worked once, after all. After considering it for a little bit, she decided to take Skye up on her offer. But she didn’t want to just ask her. She knew she could hypnotize a willing subject. The induction she’d used on Mina demonstrated the effectiveness of covert inductions. And with Skye, she figured she’d be able to send her much deeper than Mina so any programming should be far more effective.
She sat up on her bed and looked over to see her roommate working at her desk. “Hey, got some time to talk.”
Skye’s head pops up and she glances over her shoulder. “Sure, just gotta finish this up.”
Sophia nods and waves her hand. “Yeah yeah, take your time.” She starts fiddling with her phone until Skye pushes back from her desk and moves to sit on her bed across from Sophia.
“So what’s up?” She asks with a look. “It’s not like you to just want to talk out of the blue.”
Sophia gives a slight shrug and a slightly embarrassed smile. “Just looking for a change of pace, I guess. It was always you suggesting everything we do. And I guess I’m a bit curious what you think of our classes so far. Seeing as you haven’t spent your whole life around hypnosis.”
Skye considers the question for a moment. “I think it’s been a good start. The teachers give some good basic explanations, and the in class demonstrations help a lot. I feel like I’m starting to get a grasp of at least the basics.” She smiles “What about you?”
Even though she’s already thought about it, Sophia pretends to consider the question, mainly buying time to think about the induction she wants to use. “A lot of it has been a review of what I already know. Still, it’s nice to have it all confirmed. But I’ve also learned some new things that have really changed my perspective on hypnosis. Given me some new ideas.” She nods. “And I agree about the demonstrations. Visualizing what we’re learning in action helps a lot. Which one was your favorite?”
“Hmmm. Oh, the one in the class we were learning about conditioning. That was really cool.” Skye says as she recalls the mental image of it.
That was one of the classes they didn’t have together. Good. “I that, but I’d like to hear about what happened in your class.”
Skye nods enthusiastically as she recalls it. “The teacher dropped them really quickly, and then started demonstrating the basics of programming. She gave some basic suggestions about forgetting the number 4. Then she started conditioning her.”
Sophia nods. “I see. And how did that conditioning work? Really try to it.”
“It was really interesting. Our teach just kept repeating her programming, describing how it was sinking into their mind. Making them feel like it always there. Making it go down deep into their thoughts.” Skye kept nodding slightly as she described this. “And our teacher… she… uh…” She blushes slightly.
“Yes? What did she do.” Sophia speaks encouragingly, leading Skye on.
“She pet them.” Her blush deepens. “She explained how it would help soothe the subject, and make their conditioning sink deeper.”
Sophia grins at this. “And do you like the idea of that? Petting them down into trance?”
Skye nods again. “Yeah… it seems… nice…”
Sophia reaches up and softly pets Skye’s head. “That’s right, it can be so nice, so calming to let yourself be pet like this.”
Skye jerks slightly as Sophia’s hand touches her head, mostly out of surprise. “I didn’t mean- you don’t have to—.”
“Shhh shhh.” Sophia soothes as she keeps petting. “Just enjoy it. Let the calming feeling wash over you. Now try to what else you learned about conditioning.”
“Mmmmm” Skye lets out a happy sigh, quickly growing used to Sophia’s petting. “Yeah… she deepened their trance… emptied out their mind… their thoughts… telling them to drift… with the pets…”
“Very good.” Sophia purrs. “You can feel it now. Your mind being emptied. Your thoughts drifting away with my soft pets. Don’t think about it. Just let go, just follow, and let yourself drift away. It just feels so nice”
“Yeah… drift away…” Skye continues, blinking slowly. “It’s… nice…”
“That’s right” Sophia continues petting. “Drifting away for me. Letting your mind empty out. Just like you saw. Letting me condition and deepen you so well, so easily. You know how well it works. And now it’s happening to you. No need to think about it, you just want to let it happen.”
Skye’s mouth forms into a sleepy smile as her head now starts pushing up slightly into Sophia’s hand. She lets out a satisfied moan as she feels her mind being emptied out with each pet, carried away by Sophia’s words.
Sophia grins at this reaction. “Very good, you’re doing so well. Each pet making blank, each pet making you empty, each pet making you obedient. It’s so easy, so simple to let your mind drift away and let my words flow in, filling your mind. You don’t need to think about it, you just need to follow and obey.”
Skye’s head is still now, only moving when Sophia’s hand pushes it down slightly. She’s so lost in the soft pets and Sophia’s words as she feels her mind fading and drifting away, carried by the current of Sophia’s soft words. All she can do is let out a soft happy moan.
“That’s a good girl. So blank, so empty, so obedient now. So ready to accept my words, accept your programming now. No need to think, you just need to obey. And I know you can do that so well, for me, can’t you?” Sophia keeps petting, and she makes Skye’s head give a nod. “That’s right. Letting my words fill your mind. And you’ll find that whenever I start petting your head like this, your mind and thoughts will slip away from you, and you’ll fall back into this nice, relaxing trance for me. You can do that for me, can’t you?” Skye makes a soft noise of assent as Sophia makes her nod again. “Such a good girl. Petting away your mind. Sending you deeper into trance, deeper into submission, deeper into obedience, deeper into my control. Conditioning you to my control, loving how it feels, my words filling your mind.”
Sophia enjoyed the power she felt from hypnotizing her roommate by petting her. It was so different from anything she’d tried before. It gave her such a rush to have the power to lull someone down into trance just by petting them. Like having her very own submissive pet. She grinned at the thought. “Such a good pet for me now, Skye. It feels so good to no have to think. I’ll do all the hard thinking for you. My pets will always empty your pretty little head out. Pull you down into this wonderful trance for me, making you my submissive little pet again. And even when you’re awake and awake, thinking for yourself, you’ll know deep down that you’re my good, helpless little pet.” A sleepy smile forms on Skye’s face at this. “That’s right, such a good pet for me. Each stroke, each caress, each brush of my hand pulling you down deeper for me. And even when I stop petting you, you’ll still be my good little pet until I tell you to wake up.” She stops petting, and her grin widens as Skye stays in trance. “That’s right, very good pet. So deep, so submissive, so obedient. Forgetting this trance as you wake up, but still falling so quickly, so easily, so deeply for me. Coming back up now.” Sophia snaps her fingers.
As her mind returns, Skye blinks and shakes her head as she comes back to herself. She looks up at Sophia with a look of confusion. “When did you get so close?”
“Don’t worry about it,” Sophia responds with a giggle. “You were saying about that demonstration?”
“What?” Skye takes a moment to regain her train of thought. “Oh right, that conditioning demonstration. Yeah, it was really cool to see in action, and I think it helped me get a grasp of at least the basic idea of it.”
Sophia nods. “I agree. It’s best when you can see new things applied. When I was learning with my mother, she would always make me demonstrate whatever she’d just taught me. It got tedious pretty quickly, but it did help me understand it on a deeper level.” She shrugs.
“Right, that makes sense,” Skye says, still smiling, happy that Sophia was talking to her a little bit. “What about you? Anything new that you’re glad you’ve learned.”
“A few things.” She returns a smug expression at Skye’s expectant look. “Here, I’ll show you.” She reaches out to pet Skye’s head again.
Skye is more curious than anything else as Sophia lifts her hand up. “What are you… uh…” Skye stumbles over her words as Sophia’s hand lands on her head. “This is… uh… a bit… uh…” Skye’s voice trails off as her thoughts fade away with each pet. Her eyes glaze over as her expression relaxes, becoming spacey and distant. As the petting continues, a slight smile forms on Skye’s face as she begins to feel more and more like Sophia’s pet again.
“That’s right, such a good pet for me,” Sophia purrs, happy that her conditioning was so effective. Of course, she’d have to make sure to reinforce this trigger regularly to keep it fresh in Skye’s mind, but it was a fantastic start. And she seemed none the wiser about the whole thing. Sophia toyed with the idea of keeping Skye ignorant about it but decided it would be better to let her now. At least that Sophia had hypnotized her, even if she didn’t exactly what was done to her in trance. Sophia keeps petting her for a few minutes while she considers what to do next, speaking soft words of submission and obedience, reinforcing her conditioning in Skye’s vulnerable mind. “Now, my good little pet. I’m going to give you some more instructions to follow. Whenever you hypnotize someone, if you’re able to give them a trigger to drop them down into trance, you will do so, and then you will text me a picture of them, their name, and what their trigger is. After you send that text, you will forget you did any of that, and you will ignore these messages whenever you look at our texts.” Sophia didn’t have any plans beyond this, but it would be a good test of Skye’s conditioning, and having a few more potential subjects at her disposal wouldn’t hurt either. “You’ll feel so good as you obey me, obey your conditioning just how a good little pet should. Obeying and forgetting perfectly, obeying my words deep in your mind, and knowing deep down that you’re being such a good pet even as you forget what I’ve told you to forget. You will forget this programming when you wake up, but you’ll I hypnotized you, and you’ll that I can drop you down by petting you. But you’ll find that you will never resist or move away if you see me moving my hand up to pet you and drop you down for me. You’ll always let me pet you whenever I want and drop you down into this deep, wonderful trance again. Because you love being in trance for me. You love obeying and submitting for me. You love being my submissive little pet.” Sophia keeps petting Skye, revelling in her dominance and control. Then she pulls her hand back. “Ri now, my pet. ing and forgetting just as I’ve told you, and obeying perfectly. Coming up for me now.” Sophia snaps her fingers.
Skye blinks as her mind reorients itself to Sophia’s commands. Her eyes widen as the memories of being hypnotized. Then her eyes dart to Sophia and a smile forms on her face. “You sneaky devil. You hypnotized me? Without me noticing?”
Sophia grins at her. “I did. Been working on my covert inductions a bit. I would have asked you, but, you know.”
Skye giggles at this. “Yeah, I get it. It would have been nice to know it was coming, but that was still really cool.” She blushes slightly. “And triggering me with petting is really nice. I might take that idea in the future.”
“I’d love to watch if you ever use it.” Sohpia sits back down on her own bed. “It’s a real power trip. Having all that power quite literally at your fingertips.”
“Mmmmm, yeah it sounds great.” Skye shares Sophia’s grin now. “Just don’t embarrass me with it or anything.”
“Yeah, yeah, totally,” Sophia says, waving this concearn away. “But there’s still plenty of fun to be had with. As long as you’re willing, of course.”
Skye nods enthusiastically. “Oh yeah. If nothing else it’ll be good practice. But it might be more fair if I had a way to drop you,” She says with a sly smile.
Sophia wasn’t totally sure about it. But she didn’t want to dismiss the proposal out of hand. She had grown to trust Skye, so she wasn’t entirely against it either. “Oh, maybe. If you’re good enough to get me, that is.” Sophia gives her a smug look.
Skye’s eyes widen slightly at the challenge, and then she meets Sophia’s grin with her own. “Oh, I see how it is. Challenge accepted. But just one thing.” She holds up a finger. “Let’s not do anything permanent. Triggers to drop us that only we can use and temporary programming are fine, but nothing else. Sound fair?”
Sophia nods right away. Skye didn’t need to know about the bit of programming she’d already been given, and a little friendly competition would be interesting if nothing else. “Deal.” She smirks. “Well, best of luck, I suppose. I’ll refrain from triggering you right away.” Sophia says graciously. “That just wouldn’t be fun.”
“How gracious of you,” Skye says still grinning. Then she slides off her bed and sits down at her desk and gets back to work.
Seeing that she’s not going to try anything right away, Sophia lays back on her bed again and starts browsing her phone again. Things were certainly getting interesting.