My partner tugged at the tie at my back. “Alright. All nice and restrained…”

“Mmmn…” I moaned, ready for them to begin.

“Now,” they gently commanded, cupping my chin. “All I need you to do is look into my eyes… and trust in me.”

“Mmhm…”

“Jussssst in me…”

“Mmm…?”

“Shut your eyes…”

“Pfft.”

“And trust…” they noticed me holding a laugh. “In me?”

“Pfffahahaha! Yellow, yellow.”

“What, what is it? What’s so funny? Didn’t you want a Disney trance?”

“A dizzy trance!” I corrected, laughing. “I wanted a momentum-focused trance. I want to feel dizzy!”

They broke out in laughter too. We were both laughing.

“Aw, man…” they said, catching their breath. “And I had this whole Kaa-style induction ready to go, I looked up the lyrics, I practiced a Sterling Holloway impression and everything.”

“Please do not hypnotize me in a Sterling Holloway voice.”

“W-well…” they said, another giggle falling out of their mouth. “Now what? You didn’t call red, so…”

“I still want to feel dizzy!” I exclaimed.

They sighed.

“Okay. Ready to go?”

“Of course!”

They grabbed my shoulders and spun me around a few times.

“There. Dizzy?”

“Yeah… dizzy…”

“Alright. Let me position you next to the bed so that you fall someplace soft, and…” they snapped their fingers. “Sleep.”

I felt my body fall. I didn’t feel it land…