In the afternoon, Kara drove her car into the parking lot of a carnival that her girlfriend Scarlett had wanted to visit. Scarlett had discovered the carnival while browsing on Yelp for fun things to do nearby when she was bored. They both got out of the car and approached the entrance gate that led to the carnival, looking upon a large sign on the gate that read “Cassandra’s Carnival of Control.” Right under the name, was a logo of a woman waving a hypnotic pendant back and forth.

Kara had a bit of a confused look on her face the more she stared at the sign. “You sure about this place? What the hell is a ‘carnival of control’ even supposed to be like?”

“I’m pretty sure this carnival is supposed to have some kind of hypnosis theme for its’ attractions.” Scarlett was explaining to her friend. “I know the name is kinda weird, but I swear that everyone who reviewed this place on Yelp awarded it perfect five-star reviews. Besides, I’d rather go out to do something instead of sitting around in my house all day bored out of my mind.”

“Well, I guess that’s a good point.” Kara agreed as they entered the gate and walked up to the ticket booth. As they were purchasing their tickets to enter the carnival, Kara noticed that the young woman running the booth had unusually tired and glazed-over eyes, and a large sleepy smile plastered over her face. Kara had assumed that the woman probably didn’t get very good sleep the previous night.

The two women entered the carnival and were wandering about, thinking about what ride they wanted to go on first. As they were looking around themselves at the wide variety of rides offered by the carnival, Kara noticed something odd about all of the carnival employees who were operating the rides.

Every ride operator was a young woman like the one they saw running the ticket booth, all wearing the same zonked-out expressions on their faces with glazed eyes. Kara was weirded out and a little concerned over what she was witnessing.

“Scarlett, why do all of the girls running this carnival have the exact same look on their faces? It’s kind of creeping me out.” Kara admitted in a bit of a nervous tone.

“Oh, maybe the hypnosis-themed rides at this carnival can actually hypnotize people, and the woman running this place is secretly hypnotizing park-goers into being forced to work for her as her slaves.” Scarlett laughed, but soon stopped when she realized that Kara looked more nervous than ever now.

“D-d-do you think that’s all true?” Kara stammered in an anxious tone.

“Nah, I’m just joking.” Scarlett laughed again as she slapped her friend on her back, which made Kara wince in annoyance. “The only reason all these women look so dazed is because working at a carnival is real tiring work. Trust me, I know from experience.”

“What do you mean?”

“I once worked a summer job at another carnival a few years ago as a ride operator.” Scarlett started explaining to Kara. “During my time working there, I was constantly getting barfed on by screaming and crying kids, guys who thought it was a good idea to wolf down deep-fried Twinkies before getting on the rides, and Karens who complained that I was making the rides go too fast and threatening to report me to the manager. All of that can really wear ya down. You really shouldn’t be so paranoid.”

“Alright… that sort of makes sense, I guess.” Kara understood that working at a carnival probably wasn’t a very glamorous job, though she felt that Scarlett was exaggerating a lot. As the two made their way through the heart of the carnival, they were both approached by an attractive black-haired older woman, wearing an outfit that resembled a cross between a sexy stage magician costume, and an amusement park employee uniform.

“Hello, and welcome to my carnival!” The woman cheerfully greeted the two girls. “My name is Cassandra, and I couldn’t help but notice that you girls seem a bit lost and unsure of what ride to start with.”

Kara was about to pipe up, but was interrupted by Scarlett. “Yeah, we were wondering if you had a good recommendation for what ride we should go on first?”

“Of course!” Cassandra happily exclaimed. “Just follow me, and I promise you that you’ll have a great time!”

Cassandra was leading the two girls towards one of the carnival’s rides. As they were walking, Scarlett spoke to her. “My girlfriend Kara believes that you’ve been secretly hypnotizing customers and turning them into your work slaves! I think she’s being way too paranoid.” She laughed as Kara was glaring at her.

Cassandra laughed in response to Scarlett. “Oh, the whole hypnotism theme is just a fun little gimmick to make this carnival stand out from all the other ones.”

As the three of them walked closer to their destination, Kara was looking down at her shoes with an embarrassed look on her face. She was thinking to herself that maybe Scarlett was right about her being too paranoid, so she decided to remain quiet about the whole situation so as to not get herself embarrassed any further.

“Well, here we are!” Cassandra’s voice broke Kara out of her deep concentration as she lifted her head to look at the first ride they were going to board. “The Trance-a-Whirl!” Cassandra made a ‘ta-da’ motion with her hands towards the attraction.

“Don’t you mean Tilt-a-Whirl?” Kara asked.

“No, I meant what I said.” Cassandra corrected her. “It’s basically the same as the regular ride, but with an added hypnosis theme to match with the rest of the carnival.”

Kara noticed that the seven ride vehicles were perched upon a platform, with a large spiral underneath each car. Cassandra had the two girls follow her up the small staircase that led inside one of the seven red cars, and Kara tried to ignore how the ride operator had a completely hypnotized and glassy expression upon her face.

They sat down on the curved seat inside the car, with Cassandra sitting between the two girls, as Kara realized that the inside of the vehicle was slightly bigger than on other versions of the Tilt-a-Whirl she had rode in the past. Kara looked down in front of her where all three of their legs were meeting and noticed a large steering wheel, similar to the ones she had seen on various Tea Cups rides.

“I can’t wait to show you girls the latest in state-of-the-art carnival technology.” Cassandra excitedly whispered to Kara and Scarlett as she grabbed her smartphone out of her pocket. She opened up an app and pressed down on a digital button, revealing that the top of the steering wheel was actually a circular television screen that displayed an image of a spiral.

“Whoa… that’s so cool!” Scarlett squealed in joy. While Scarlett was distracted by the cool technology, Kara noticed that Cassandra had placed a pair of sunglasses over her eyes.

“Why are you wearing sunglasses?” Kara asked.

“Because it’s really sunny outside, and I’d like to protect my eyes.” Cassandra responded.

“But it’s not that sunny in this partially-enclosed vehicle.” Kara questioned her.

“Oh, stop being such a killjoy, and have some fun already!” Scarlett whined as the vehicle finally started to move around the platform with the others. Kara was looking down upon the steering wheel, using her hands to twist and turn it around and around. The spiral on the screen started to rotate, matching up with the turning of the wheel.

As Kara was staring longer into the center of the spinning spiral, she felt herself falling within an entranced daze, further and further towards the center. She was able to tear her sleepy, drooping eyes from the spiral long enough to look over at Scarlett, and was so shocked by what she saw, it immediately broke her out of her light trance.

Scarlett was staring intently into the spiral with a deeply dazed look on her face, very much like the kind of expressions Kara had seen earlier on the employees’ faces. She was drooling out of the corner of her mouth, and Kara noticed that Scarlett had spirals spinning around in her eyes that matched perfectly with the spiral on the spinning screen.

“Spinny…spiral…” Scarlett moaned out as she fell further under a trance.

“Oh my god! Cassandra really is trying to hypnotize us!” Kara tried in vain to wake Scarlett out of her trance by furiously waving one of her hands in front of her face. “Scarlett, you’ve gotta snap out of it!”

“But I wanna… be hypnotized…” Scarlett admitted in a dazed monotone.

Cassandra used one of her hands to gently brush her fingers through the back of Scarlett’s brown hair, which made Scarlett sigh contently and lean her head closer into Cassandra’s touch. Cassandra turned to look at Kara with a smug smile on her face.

“Don’t you want to join your girlfriend in experiencing wonderfully entrancing bliss?” Cassandra seductively teased Kara while she continued softly petting Scarlett’s head. Scarlett let out a pleasure-tinged hiss over Cassandra’s gentle touch. “Oh yeah, right there… harder… mmm… y’know, getting my mind erased… by the spiral… isn’t so bad, Kara…”

Kara was freaking out over what she was witnessing. “No! I’m not gonna let you hypnotize us!” Kara intended on bursting through the exit door and pulling Scarlett away from Cassandra’s control, but before she could try to escape, Cassandra used her other arm to suddenly pin down Kara so her face was directly touching the spiral screen, ensuring Kara would have no choice but be forced to watch her free will spiral down into the center of the screen.

Cassandra removed her other arm from caressing Scarlett’s body, and used her hand to steer the wheel while continuing to pin down Kara’s face right against the center of the spiral. “I think it’s time you had a little… attitude adjustment.” Cassandra chuckled as she saw the spirals filling up Kara’s now-glassy eyes.

“Attitude… adjustment…” Kara mindlessly repeated.

The ride slowed to a stop, and the other park-goers on the Trance-a-Whirl exited the attraction to look for other rides to enjoy. Cassandra remained in her seat, enjoying the company of her new girls. Remaining in the middle, she was gingerly stroking the backs of the girls’ heads, causing both of the girls to happily sigh as they held onto Cassandra’s sides tightly with their arms in a large embrace.

“Ready to take another spin, girls?” Cassandra punctuated her question with a kiss on both Kara and Scarlett’s cheeks.

“Yes Miss Cassandra…” Kara and Scarlett responded in a simultaneous hypnotized monotone, both blushing from Cassandra’s kiss. “We are ready for you to take us on another spin and to empty our minds…”

The next batch of park-goers boarded the other vehicles, and the ride started moving again. Cassandra brought out her smartphone, re-entering the app and pressing down another digital button. The spiral on the circular screen was now replaced by a pattern of flashing and blinking stars that resembled the night sky.

Cassandra used her arms to shove Kara and Scarlett’s faces right onto the wheel’s screen, using her hands to slowly twist the wheel. The girls’ visions were soon being overtaken by the spinning stars on the screen of the turning wheel.

“After this ride comes to a stop again, you’re gonna be seeing stars in your eyes…” Cassandra evilly giggled as she suddenly and aggressively groped both of the girls asses’ that were now raised up in front of her, making them both gasp out in delight.

“Oooooohhhhh… seeing stars…” The spinning stars were now flashing and blinking in Kara and Scarlett’s eyes.

When the ride came to a stop again, the ride operator stopped by the vehicle that Cassandra and her new hypnotized friends were seated in, opening up the staircase hatch so that they could leave. Scarlett poked her dazed head out of the exit of their vehicle.

“Wow… all those spirals and stars… swirling in and out of my head… my brain feels so empty right now…” Scarlett giddily giggled as she lightly fell towards the ground below, perfectly landing on her hands and knees with her butt raised towards the sky above.

Kara was stumbling towards the exit hatch in a mindless daze. “So many spinning stars…” Kara moaned out as the stars were spinning fast in her eyes, wiping her brain further every time they flashed and blinked. “So many pretty patterns…”

Kara also fell out of the vehicle, landing right next to Scarlett on her hands and knees, butt also raised in the air. “We both wish to continue serving Mistress Cassandra for however long she desires…” Kara and Scarlett chanted together.

Cassandra descended the staircase of the ride car, stepping upon the girls’ raised butts like her personal foot stools before she stepped back onto the platform of the ride.

“Why, thank you girls.” Cassandra praised them. “How thoughtful of you to offer yourselves up to me to be used as my personal playthings.” She giggled.

“No, thank you Mistress Cassandra, for allowing us the honor of being stepped upon by you.” The girls chorused together in a monotone.

When Cassandra was heading towards the exit of the platform, the spinning stars had disappeared from Kara’s eyes. “Wait a minute, why are we thanking our mistress for stepping all over us?”

“Because it is hot to be stepped on all over by Mistress Cassandra.” Scarlett answered in a monotone voice.

The spinning stars returned in Kara’s eyes again. “Oh yeah, good point.”

Kara and Scarlett heard a loud whistle coming from Cassandra’s direction, which prompted them to immediately climb back up on their feet. “Whatever you command, we will obey, Mistress Cassandra.”

“C’mon girls, you must follow me to the next ride that I would love to go on with you two.” Cassandra commanded. Kara and Scarlett followed right behind Cassandra’s footsteps, with their arms stretched out in front of their bodies like hypnotized zombies. “Yes, Mistress Cassandra. We must follow you.”

As they all walked closer to the next ride, the spinning stars had temporarily disappeared from Kara’s eyes once again. “Hey Scarlett, what did all those reviewers on Yelp who gave this carnival five-star ratings exactly say about this place?”

Scarlett robotically grabbed her phone from her pocket and opened up the Yelp app, scrolling down to the reviews. She read aloud the top review to Kara.

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

Kara thought that was really odd. “Ok, what do the other reviews say?”

Scarlett briefly scrolled down to the review right under the top review, and read it aloud.

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

Scarlett scrolled down to the next review.

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

“Alright, you can stop reading the reviews if they’re just going to repeat the exact same thing.” Kara told her. However, Scarlett didn’t pay any attention to Kara as she continued scrolling through the reviews, repeatedly reading out the mantra every single reviewer had typed out.

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

Kara felt herself falling under a trance again while listening to Scarlett repeat the reviewers’ mantra on a constant loop, and the spinning stars returned in her eyes once more. She couldn’t help but join Scarlett in chanting the mantra alongside her.

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

“Ahhh… Music to my ears…” Cassandra sounded all-too pleased in hearing her girls constantly professing their undying loyalty to her.

They finally reached Cassandra’s next ride of choice, and the girls were broken out of their trances upon hearing Cassandra’s voice announce their arrival. “Alright girls, we’re here!”

Kara looked up at the giant ride that was looming over them all, which was a massive drop tower ride with a multi-seat cylindrical gondola that could rise and fall at fast speeds. Kara noticed that the seats had what looked like plastic barriers jutting out in front of them, which she assumed were leftovers from the pandemic lockdowns that the carnival hadn’t gotten rid of yet.

When the three women took their seats on the ride, the dazed ride operator came around to pull down on the seat restraints to make sure the riders were safe and secure, and then Cassandra motioned to the dazed ride operator to press down on a red button at the control panel to get the gondola moving. Kara noticed that Cassandra’s seat was the only one that didn’t have a barrier in front of it.

The gondola was rising up towards the top of the tower, and once it had reached the top, the gondola suddenly plunged down towards the bottom of the tower at a fast speed, causing the riders to scream out in excitement. When the gondola started shooting up towards the top again, Kara noticed a moving image of a spinning spiral had appeared on the barrier in front of her face.

Kara quickly realized that instead of a plastic barrier, she was really looking at a rectangular television screen. The POV of the camera in the hypnotic video was constantly zooming in and out of the spiral, perfectly timed with the rising and falling of the gondola on the tower.

Kara felt herself descending into a dreamy state when the gondola fell towards the bottom as she also fell towards the center of the spiral, and then felt herself ascending into her designated role as Cassandra’s slave when the gondola shot up to the top of the tower, as she also rose up from the depths of the spiral.

When the gondola plunged towards the bottom again, Kara felt herself plunging right into her Mistress Cassandra’s control, sliding down the spiral like the coils of a snake. Kara’s mind was repeatedly being pushed and pulled back and forth in a constant game of mental tug-of-war the more the gondola quickly rose and fell, falling into more of an obedient state of mind for her Mistress Cassandra.

The ride operator pressed a button so that the ride would finally come to a stop, allowing the gondola to slowly approach the bottom of the tower so that the riders could safely get off. The operator walked over to the gondola to raise the seat restraints, so the riders were able to escape their seats and exit the attraction.

Kara and Scarlett were both trapped within a dreamy daze, their eyes reflecting the shrinking and growing spirals that they were made to watch during the hypnotic video. Cassandra stepped in between the two girls wearing a sly smile on her face. She gently placed her hands on the backs of the two girls, suddenly pulling them closer to her in a warm embrace, lightly squishing them both against the sides of her breasts. Kara and Scarlett both let out a contented, aroused sigh from their Mistress’ affections.

Cassandra turned her attention to Kara. “You should follow me towards the next attraction of my choice. I can promise you that it will be your favorite ride at my carnival.” Cassandra cooed as she twirled a finger through Kara’s red hair.

“Yes Mistress Cassandra, I love going on rides with you.” Kara happily sighed as she leaned in closer to Cassandra’s touch.

Cassandra now turned her attention to Scarlett. “You will love the next ride as much as you love me. It is the most exciting attraction I run in this carnival.” Cassandra was softly twirling a finger through Scarlett’s brown hair.

Cassandra’s promise of an exciting ride caused the spirals to disappear from Scarlett’s eyes as she grew an excited look on her face. “Oh boy, I love thrill rides!” Scarlett posed her body into a running position before turning her face to look at Kara. “Race ya there, even though I already know I’m gonna beat ya!”

Scarlett ran off towards the direction that Cassandra was pointing to, which caused the spirals to also disappear from Kara’s eyes. “Hey, wait up for me! This isn’t supposed to be a competition!” Kara ran behind Scarlett until they both reached the next ride, and Cassandra caught up with them a few moments later.

Kara and Scarlett both looked up at the large attraction in awe. The ride appeared to be a clone of the Ring of Fire, which was normally a giant loop made up of a roller coaster-like track that would take its riders on a train around and upside down at fast speeds, but this version of the attraction was instead shaped like a spiral.

“Welcome to the Spiral of Fire!” Cassandra excitedly announced as Kara and Scarlett became more enamored by the appearance of the ride. They looked at the train leaving the station with their eyes, following the motion of the train moving across the spiral-shaped track until the train reached the center of the spiral, and then followed the train as it moved backwards on the track back to the station where it had started.

Kara and Scarlett continued tracing the back and forth motion of the train with their eyes as it zipped to the center of the spiral, and then zipped back to the station so often, that they both started to fall under deep trances, with spirals appearing in their eyes that resembled the spiral-shaped structure of the ride.

Cassandra was gently massaging her fingers throughout both of the girls’ hair. “If you’re done gawking girls, I do believe it is time to board this ride with me.” Upon hearing Cassandra, Scarlett robotically walked towards the train with her arms stretched out in front of her body, and then climbed inside the train and sat down in a seat. “Yes Mistress Cassandra.”

Kara was still staring up at the spiral ride, apprehensive about getting on the attraction. “I dunno, Mistress Cassandra. This ride seems a little too intense for me. I’m not sure I want to go on this…”

Cassandra leaned down towards Kara, and planted a small kiss on her lips as incentive for following her onto the ride. Cassandra boarded the train while beckoning Kara to follow her with a finger. Kara stretched her arms out in front of her body and followed Cassandra onto the train, taking a seat.

“Yes, Mistress Cassandra. This ride is perfect for me. I want to go on this.” Kara changed her tune in a monotone voice.

The ride operator had pulled a lever, causing the train to leave the station and make its way up the spiral-shaped track. The train reached the end of the track in the center of the spiral, and then suddenly raced backwards around the spiral until it reached the station. The train was quickly zipping to and fro, to the center of the spiral and then suddenly back to the bottom of the ride.

Inside the train, Kara and Scarlett felt like their brains were getting tossed around like clothes in a dryer every time they zoomed through the spiral, getting dizzier and dizzier with every spin. Cassandra now knew it was time to take advantage of the girls’ lightheaded and confused states as their brains were getting twisted and tumbled about.

“You girls will fall in love with me more every time we zip to the center of the spiral.” Cassandra was commanding them. “Your hearts will beat faster for me every time we zoom back to the station. As we’re racing back and forth across the track, you feel yourselves tumbling down into a lovesick daze for me.”

Kara and Scarlett’s minds were getting so scrambled by the fast movement of the ride, that they had no brain power left to oppose their mistress’ control. “Yes Mistress Cassandra. We are falling faster and faster into a lovesick daze for you.” Kara and Scarlett could feel their hearts beating faster for their mistress.

The ride operator pushed the lever back in place, which caused the train to eventually slow down at the bottom of the ride right at the station. Cassandra elegantly stepped right out of the train as if she wasn’t affected by the ride’s intense speed at all. The two girls soon followed right behind her, stumbling out of the train in a completely hypnotized daze.

“Mistress Cassandra, we have both fallen madly in love with you…” Kara and Scarlett both stammered out in a lovesick daze. Kara felt so dizzy, that she stumbled and wobbled right into the House of Mirrors attraction that was right next to the Spiral of Fire.

Kara kept accidentally smacking her body against every window as she futilely attempted to escape the maze, her entire dazed mind racing with thoughts about how she should properly serve her mistress. Kara eventually approached a tall mirror without running into it, but was so shocked by her reflection, that she started to instantly come back out of her trance.

Kara saw the spirals spinning in her eyes within her reflection. “Oh God, I’ve been under Cassandra’s hypnotic control this entire time.” Kara deduced to herself as the spirals in her eyes disappeared.

Kara had now regained enough of her free will back in her mind so that she was able to easily make her way through the maze of mirrors and find the exit. She ran back to the exit of the Spiral of Fire ride, hoping to find Scarlett so she could bring her into the House of Mirrors and show her what Cassandra had done to her, but she couldn’t find either of them there.

Looking around, Kara found Scarlett and Cassandra right in the middle of the whole carnival. Since it was starting to get dark outside now, the lights decorating all of the rides were flashing and blinking on.

Scarlett was openly drinking in the sights and sounds of all the carnival lights surrounding her. Cassandra placed a hand on Scarlett’s ass, grabbing and pushing her buttcheeks hard enough to turn her body around in perfect little circles.

Scarlett’s vision was constantly being assaulted by the hypnotic patterns of flashing and blinking lights decorating the rides from all sides. As Cassandra continued turning Scarlett’s frozen body around in circles by tightly groping her butt, Scarlett’s mouth was hanging open as the flashing sights of the carnival rides were reflected in her wide-open eyes.

“I was thinking that you could join my carnival as a new employee?” Cassandra cooed in Scarlett’s ear as she kept twisting her body around. “Doesn’t that sound nice?”

“Yes, Mistress Cassandra.” Scarlett felt the blinking lights constantly tickling her brain. “That does sound nice.”

Kara ran over to where Scarlett and Cassandra were, grabbing onto one of Scarlett’s arms and tried pulling her away from Cassandra, but Scarlett refused to budge. “C’mon Scarlett, I’ve gotta show you something important in the House of Mirrors!” Kara cried out.

Suddenly, Kara felt her butt get gripped by one of Cassandra’s hands, and she was pushed hard enough by her to have her entire body rotated in little circles. The carnival lights were piercing her eyes as she was spun around on her feet, the flashes traveling right up to her brain and taking a tight hold of her mind.

The flashing lights were getting burned into her eyes as she heard Cassandra’s gentle voice whisper inside her ear. “Why don’t you join my carnival as my new employee alongside your hypnotized girlfriend?” Cassandra giggled in Kara’s ear. “You want this more than anything, don’t you?”

Kara was just about to mindlessly nod her head up and down in agreement, but she immediately broke out of her trance when she suddenly remembered her new mission. She regained enough of her free will back to wrestle out of Cassandra’s tight grip on her ass, grabbed one of Scarlett’s arms, and through sheer adrenaline was able to quickly drag Scarlett’s body right inside the House of Mirrors.

Scarlett was completely mindless as she was being pulled by Kara into the attraction, babbling incoherently about wanting to obey and worship her Mistress Cassandra. Scarlett broke free from Kara’s hold as she stumbled and swirled around the room, accidentally bumping face first into every mirror she came across. Kara grabbed Scarlett’s arm again and dragged her to a large mirror in the center of the room, to force Scarlett to pay close attention to her own reflection.

Scarlett watched the carnival lights flashing and blinking in her eyes through her reflection, which caused her to immediately start waking back up from her trance, and the lights were snuffed out of her eyes. Scarlett held her groggy head in confusion. “Ugh… what happened?”

“Cassandra hypnotized you by spinning your body around right in the middle of the carnival’s most dizzying lights.” Kara was explaining to her. “She did that by grabbing your butt and forcibly pushing your body in circles. She tried to hypnotize me in the exact same way. She’s been trying to brainwash the both of us into wanting to mindlessly work for her.”

“Oh God, no wonder my ass is aching so much.” Scarlett winced in pain while rubbing her ass. “That freakin’ pervert was squeezing my buttcheeks way too hard!”

“Since you and I were woken up from our trances by studying our reflections, this has given me an idea.” Kara started.

“What’s your idea?”

“If we can show all of the hypnotized employees here their own reflections, we can free them all from Cassandra’s hypnotic control and help them escape this evil carnival forever.” Kara explained her plan.

“How are we gonna gather up everyone in this room without Cassandra catching and brainwashing us?” Scarlett questioned.

“I’ve come up with a more efficient way of undoing Cassandra’s hypnotism.” Kara grabbed out her smartphone, and opened up her camera app. She pressed a button that reversed the point-of-view of the camera lens so that she was staring at her own face on the screen.

“My plan is for us to run around the carnival showing every hypnotized employee their reflection on my phone screen, while we evade Cassandra. As we deprogram everyone, we’ll have them follow us out the ticket booth we went through so they can finally be free of this awful place.” Kara stared right into Scarlett’s eyes. “What do you think?”

“I think that sounds like a pretty good plan.” Before Scarlett could respond any further, both her and Kara heard Cassandra enter the room. “Girls, are you in here? I still need to show you both all of the wonderful sights and sounds of my carnival!” Cassandra called out to them.

Scarlett felt the pain on her buttcheeks flare up when she heard Cassandra’s voice. Kara whispered in her ear. “C’mon Scarlett, let’s get out of here before Cassandra finds us.”

Since Kara already knew where the exit was, she was able to easily lead Scarlett throughout the correct path of the maze and out the door. Cassandra attempted to follow behind the girls’ footsteps, but she was frequently fooled by the appearances of several of her reflections, and became lost within the maze of mirrors.

Cassandra getting stuck bought Kara and Scarlett enough time to run from ride to ride, showing every ride operator their own reflection through the camera app on Kara’s phone. One by one, they slowly reversed Cassandra’s hypnotism and starting waking the employees out of their obedient trances. Kara and Scarlett also ran over to all the food stands to de-hypnotize all of the young women who were serving food there.

Once they had awoken enough of the employees, Kara and Scarlett were leading a massive group of women towards the ticket booth so that they could all leave and be free of Cassandra’s control forever. On their way, Kara would show any other employee they came across their reflection on her phone to undo Cassandra’s brainwashing.

All of the women were racing closer and closer to the ticket booth as fast as they could, with Kara intending on showing the woman running the booth her own reflection. Unfortunately, right before they reached the booth, all of the women Kara and Scarlett had rescued were suddenly stopped in their tracks upon hearing Cassandra’s voice play out over several loudspeakers strewn throughout the carnival.

You love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Your loving mistress you will always obey

Oh shit… Kara thought to herself.

Kara and Scarlett turned themselves around to look at the large group of women. All of the women were staring forward with empty-looking faces completely devoid of any individuality, with mouths open wide as their minds were repeatedly getting drilled by their mistress’ mantra.

I love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Our loving mistress I will always obey

The women kept repeating this mantra over and over again, and every time they stated their mantra in a collective monotone voice, they started surrounding Kara and Scarlett from all sides. They formed a tight circle around the girls while locking their hands with each other, to ensure that Kara and Scarlett would be unable to escape.

Cassandra had finally escaped the House of Mirrors and had caught up to where Kara and Scarlett were. “Excellent work, girls!” Cassandra praised all of her brainwashed employees, who were all happily beaming with pride from their mistress complimenting them. “We must bring our newest recruits to the Gravitron, or as I like to call it, the Reconditioning Chamber.” Cassandra ended with an evil-looking grin that she flashed to the terrified girls in the center of the circle.

Cassandra whistled for her two burly lumberjack ladies from the log running show to shove themselves through the circle of women to grab Kara and Scarlett, and pick them off of the ground. The two girls were trying in vain to escape the strong women’s grasp, but the lumberjacks’ hold on the girls was so tight, they couldn’t budge an inch.

Cassandra walked towards where the Gravitron attraction was, with the large mass of her hypnotized slaves mindlessly following just behind her. The large lumberjack ladies followed right behind the large group, carrying Kara and Scarlett to their next destination.

All of the women climbed up a small staircase through a small door leading into the enclosed attraction. Kara noticed that there were at least four dozen padded panels that were lining the entire inside wall of the ride. Cassandra commanded all of her slaves to stand against the panels, which they immediately obeyed. She then commanded the lumberjacks to lay Kara and Scarlett against two panels next to each other, and pin them against the panels until the ride would start moving.

The ticket booth operator entered the Gravitron last, and Cassandra commanded her to enter the circular control panel at the center of the ride. Once she did, the woman pressed down on a button that caused a large 360-degree screen to encase the entire control panel.

Cassandra had the lumberjack holding onto Kara let go of her and stand up against one of the last empty panels, which she obeyed. Before Kara could try to get up and escape, Cassandra laid down on the long panel right above Kara, took off her shoes, and used her bare feet to shove Kara onto the ground. She then suddenly took hold of Kara’s red hair using her toes, and pulled up hard as if she was grabbing the reins of a horse to make sure Kara couldn’t escape her grasp. Cassandra once again placed her sunglasses upon her own face that protected her eyes from any brainwashing effects.

Right before the operator pressed a button to get the ride moving, Cassandra ordered the other lumberjack lady who was holding onto Scarlett, to lay against the last empty panel. Scarlett made a feeble attempt to escape, but the increasing speed of the spinning ride meant that the centrifugal force kept her entire body pinned to the panel she was laying on.

Kara looked to both the left and right sides of her, gazing upon all of Cassandra’s slaves who had their bodies pinned down to the wall of the spinning ride. She suddenly felt Cassandra’s toes pull up hard on her hair, forced to gaze upon the circular screen surrounding the control panel in the middle.

Kara became dazed and lightheaded once again as the massive screen roared to life, her trance deepening upon being made to watch the many hypnotic spirals and patterns that were displaying all over the round screen. The screen was rotating in the opposite direction of the spinning ride, ensuring that every woman’s face aside from Cassandra’s received a full blast of the mind-wiping spirals and patterns.

Kara’s sleepy and heavily drooping eyes were just about to slam shut, until they were forced open wide again when Cassandra used her toes to pull up on her hair once more. With her entire vision taken up by nothing but hypnotic patterns dancing along the spinning screen, the spirals began to fill her eyes again.

“You and Scarlett are such naughty girls, aren’t you?” Cassandra sternly teased both Kara and Scarlett, who could only obediently respond by slowly nodding their heads up and down in agreement with her. “Don’t you know that the House of Mirrors can only be used by my guests, and is absolutely off-limits for my trusted employees?”

“Yes, Mistress Cassandra. We are both very naughty girls for wrongfully trying to oppose your will.” Kara and Scarlett chorused together.

“Well, if there’s one good thing to come out of your traitorous attempts to rescue all of my obedient slaves and escape my wrath, it’s that I get to fully brainwash my employees so much more deeply, that they’ll  always remain under my control forever, and can never be accidentally woken up from their trances ever again!” Cassandra was maniacally laughing over her evil plan. “Doesn’t that sound great, girls?”

“Yes Mistress Cassandra, we want you to take control of us all.” All of the hypnotized women agreed together.

Cassandra spoke up a little louder so that the woman operating the control booth could hear her. “Alice, I need you to flick the slideshow switch on, now!”

“Right away, Mistress Cassandra!” Alice loyally responded as she flicked a switch. The hypnotic spiral patterns were immediately replaced by a panoramic image of what looked to be a new attraction.

“Now that we’re hiring you two to join our crew, I would love to show you an exclusive sneak preview of the latest expansion to my beloved carnival.” Cassandra was excitedly relaying this new information to her most recent recruits.

The ride in the image resembled a Pirate Ship attraction, which was a ride that swung its riders back and forth several times. But instead of a giant ship, the ride was made up of a giant, sparkly pink-colored high heel slowly waving back and forth. All of the sparkles on the swinging heel were flashing in front of Kara’s dazed eyes.

“I’m going to add a new foot-fetish themed land to my carnival, with two exciting new rides to go along with it!” Cassandra was gently stroking her toes throughout Kara’s red hair, causing Kara to happily sigh in pleasure, especially since Cassandra was no longer harshly tugging on her hair with her toes. “This ride is called The Pink Heel, and you’re going to be running this attraction yourself! Aren’t you so proud?”

“Piiiiinnnnnkk… Hhheeeeeeeelllll…” Kara droned out while drooling out of the corner of her mouth. The hypnotic, sparkling heel had completely captured her undivided attention.

Alice pressed a button to change the image on the screen, which was now displaying a steel roller coaster. But instead of regular roller coaster cars rolling along the ride’s track, all of the cars were shaped like sexy women’s feet with red-painted toes.

Cassandra turned her attention to Scarlett, who was completely enamored by the moving image, flicking her eyes back and forth to follow the movements of the roller coaster cars zipping back and forth along the track.

“The other ride is a new roller coaster that I call The FootFlasher!” Cassandra was explaining to Scarlett. “This is the ride that you will be operating for all of our guests. Isn’t that nice?”

“Yes… mistress…” Scarlett moaned out. “I wanna run the roller coaster… I wanna ride the roller coaster…”

Cassandra told Alice to flick the slideshow switch off, causing the images to fade out, only for the brainwashing patterns to fade back into the screen. The flashing patterns continued to take a tight mental hold on the brains of all of the women in the ride.

While Scarlett continued to feel like she was mindlessly sliding down the spirals, her mind would sometimes randomly flash back to when Kara had led her into the House of Mirrors to show her how Cassandra kept repeatedly brainwashing them. Scarlett would try to push down these thoughts so she wouldn’t displease her mistress, but the flashbacks kept invading her mind so often that she could no longer ignore them.

Now that Scarlett had amassed just enough free will back into her mind, she was able to slowly pull herself off of the panel she was laying on, struggling to crawl on the bottom of the spinning ride towards the control panel. Since Cassandra was wearing her hypnosis-blocking sunglasses, she didn’t even notice that Scarlett had left her panel since her vision was so dark through the sunglasses’ lens.

Scarlett crawled up to the small control room in the center of the ride, and found a small emergency door on the screen that allowed her access into the circular room. Though it was difficult to get her timing right due to the screen spinning around in front of her, as well as the hypnotic patterns flashing right in front of her face and pulsating in her brain, she succeeded in bursting through the door right into the control panel.

Scarlett shoved Alice out of the way, and pressed a button that caused the ride to slow to a stop. She pulled Alice back up on her feet, whipping out her phone to show Alice her own reflection through the camera app, waking her up from her trance. After standing there for a few moments rubbing her dizzy head, she finally regained her senses and thanked Scarlett for saving her from Cassandra’s control.

Scarlett and Alice stepped out of the small door back into the now-unmoving ride, and Scarlett showed Kara her reflection on her phone. After becoming un-hypnotized, Kara ran around the inside of the ride using her own phone to un-brainwash all of the women, who were running out of the ride’s exit as fast as they could. Once Cassandra finally realized everything that had been going on, she ripped off her sunglasses to chase Kara around the inside of the Gravitron, shouting profanities at her for having ruined her mass hypnosis plan.

“Kara!” Scarlett shouted out to her. “I found an autopilot button in the control room. I need you to pin Cassandra down onto one of the ride panels now!”

“Right away, Scarlett!” Kara exclaimed. She stopped running away from Cassandra, turning around and using all of her might to shove Cassandra against one of the padded panels. Kara was pinning her against the wall of the ride to make sure she couldn’t escape.

“Let go of me!” Cassandra yelled at Kara as she was thrashing her whole body around trying to get away from Kara’s tight grip. “You’re only delaying the inevitable! All I have to do is play my brainwashing mantra over the intercoms to bring everyone back under my control!”

Scarlett pressed the autopilot button, and ran out the exit with Kara following just behind, as the ride began to spin around again. Cassandra tried to chase after Kara and Scarlett, but as the speed of the ride increased, the centrifugal force had pinned her to the wall of the ride. The hypnotic patterns flared back on the circular screen and were broadcasted directly into her eyes. Cassandra began to fall under a trance, but since the ride was running on autopilot, there wasn’t anyone who could press a button to stop the Gravitron.

“Get… back here… girls… you haven’t… seen the last… of me…” Cassandra weakly tried to protest as her brain soaked up all of the brainwashing spirals like a sponge.

Outside the Gravitron, Kara and Scarlett did a head count to make sure none of Cassandra’s victims were missing. Once everyone was accounted for, they led the whole group of women to the carnival’s exit. Cassandra getting hypnotized within the ride bought them all enough time to run into the parking lot so the women could look for their cars and leave.

After everyone had left, Kara and Scarlett found Kara’s car and started driving back home. At a stoplight, Kara turned her attention to Scarlett so she could ask her a question.

“So, is Cassandra going to be trapped in a trance within her carnival, like… forever?”

“Now don’t tell me you feel sorry for her!” Scarlett complained.

“No, it’s not that. I’m just wondering how she’s supposed to like… eat or drink, and stuff like that?” Kara asked.

“Look, I’m sure the ride will soon break down after continuous use or something.” Scarlett responded right before Kara dropped her off at her house.

A couple days later, the Gravitron ride finally broke down and stopped moving. Even after the spirals on the screen had vanished, Cassandra was still leaned back against the padded panel in a mindless daze, spirals swirling freely within her eyes.

It took several minutes for Cassandra to begin regaining her senses and for the spirals to disappear from her eyes. Once she came to, she vigorously shook her whole head, rubbing it with her hand. “Ohhh… my head…” Cassandra moaned as a few after-images of the hypnotic spirals continued playing out behind her eyelids.

When Cassandra stood back up on her feet, she was absolutely furious. “When I get my hands on those two snot-nosed brats, I’m going to personally ensure that they remain under my hypnotic control for all of eternity!” Cassandra stormed out of the Gravitron to chase Kara and Scarlett down, but was absolutely shocked by what she saw.

Well, more like what she didn’t see. “What the hell?!” Cassandra exclaimed in surprise. “Where are my new recruits? Where are all of my girls?!” Cassandra ran over to the parking lot just outside her carnival, and was dismayed to see that all of her slaves had permanently broken free from her control and had driven away from her forever.

Cassandra dejectedly slumped back into her carnival staring down at her feet, until she reached the center where she was surrounded by all of her rides. Feeling like there was only one choice left, she pressed a digital button on a phone app that controlled her loudspeakers, and looked up towards the sky, taking in all of the hypnotic lights strewn all around her attractions.

You love going to Cassandra’s carnival each and every day

Your loving mistress you will always obey