“Look into my eyes, Rowan, look deeply into my eyes,” Jae said in their best tist voice. 

Rowan looked into Jae’s eyes and Jae had never before noticed how green their eyes were. They had eyeliner on, with that winged cat-eye look. It drew attention to their eyes and made it easy for Jae to keep eye contact.

“You need to look into my eyes, even as your body gets more and more relaxed and your thoughts fade to nothingness. You are sinking into trance, but you must keep looking into my eyes, you must stay awake. Fight the urge to sink, to drop, to fall.”

Rowan started blinking more and more. They were fighting to stay awake. Jae was also blinking a lot, probably because it was so dry in the room. They’d have to get water after the trance. 

“You are relaxing deeper and deeper, focused so deeply on my eyes, so intensely,” Jae said. They shifted their position slightly because they were finding topping relaxing. “You want to sleep, you want to go deep for me, but only when I let you.”

They felt so comfortable and so sleepy. Weird. 

“I’m going to count down from three to one and when I reach the number one, you can finally let go and sleep. Three, almost time to let go, two, so close to being able to let go – and one: drop!”

Rowan’s eyes closed and they slipped into a trance. But so did Jae’s. They slumped over Rowan, waking both of them up and setting them laughing and giggling.