Later the next day, Audrey and Eva gather back together in Club Coze, sitting at their usual booth. Eva wears a deep-blue dress shot through with silver stars, and Audrey wears her familiar lavender one. 

"So," says Eva, finally getting up the courage to speak. "Another first date."

The corners of Audrey's mouth quirk up. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Sushi?", asks Eva. 

"Actually," Audrey says, "I'd like to see you eat a fajita." 

Eva laughs, and nods. "Fajitas it is, then." And she taps the table twice, and a large plate of pre-wrapped fajitas appears on the table between her and Audrey. 

Audrey eyes the stack of stuffed tortillas warily. "What's in these?'

"I ordered chicken," says Eva. She reaches out and takes a fajita from the stack. A small plate appears at her place at the table, and she sets it down there for a moment, considering it. 

Audrey looks at her thoughtfully, and takes one of the fajitas herself. "You first," she says. 

Eva raises her fajita in a mock salute, then brings it in and starts eating it. After a few bites, a gout of mixed sour cream and salsa falls from the side of the fajita and all over Eva's hand. 

"Drat," she says, and reaches for a napkin. "These things always do this."

Audrey picks up her fajita as well, and takes a pair of careful bites. "Mmm. S'good." She takes another bite, swallows. "... This is really good."

"Yeah," says Eva. "I guess you never really know until you try."

Audrey blushes a little, and goes back to her fajita. 

Eva considers her food, looking from her falling-apart fajita to the stack of napkins and back, shrugs to herself, and does her best to fold the fajita back together and scoop it into her mouth. It still drips on her hand a lot, but she manages to eat it anyway. 

"So, Audrey," she says, wiping her gooey hand with a napkin. "What do you want to talk about?"

Audrey frowns slightly. "What do you want to talk about?" 

Eva runs a hand through her hair. "I..." She rallies. "I want to talk about hiking."

"Hiking?" Audrey raises an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I used to hike a lot. I would go to nature trails and sightseeing tours... I rarely stayed overnight in the wilderness, but all the parts you could walk to from somewhere close to the OTC, I explored. It must have been... Hundreds, maybe thousands of worlds."

Audrey nods and leans in a little. "Go on?"

"There was this one world I went to where... all the plants were red, deep dark tones of vermillion and scarlet. No birds, no bugs. Just plants, on this world. I hiked a small mountain that was a walk-on, there - it must have been a five or six kilometer hike one way - anyway. It was very still and quiet the entire time, a little spooky. There were squirrel-like animals in the underbrush occasionally, so sometimes I'd get little flickers of movement - eerie stuff when you're out in the wilderness alone. It was one of my more challenging hikes - I was very glad I'd brought proper hiking boots.

"It was all worth it to see the valleys and hills of deep vermillion forest fall away around the base of the mountain, though. It felt like... I'd earned something." Eva smiles at Audrey, a light blush tinging her cheeks. "Would you... like to come with me on a hike sometime? We could do something easy to start with, a boardwalk or a small level trail in good country..." 

Audrey smiles, a blush tinging her face as well. "I would love to."

"It's a date," says Eva. And she picks up another fajita and bites into it. 

Audrey finishes her fajita as well, and takes another. "Alright. I'll look into hiking trails on Arcbright and pick something suitable for a beginner like me."

Eva smiles and nods. "Sounds like a plan."

The table falls quiet for a few minutes as both of them finish their second fajitas. 

"I..." says Audrey. "I never really told you about what I do all day, either."

"No, you didn't." Eva shakes her head. 

"I... mostly don't have a social life. Because of the dysphoria, and because of - the awkwardness of explaining that I used to be a boy, or else lying..."

Eva nods sympathetically. "I've been there."

"... but there's this one girl I know who I'm kind of loose friends with. We used to play roleplaying games back in high school with a couple of others - you know, Dungeons and Dragons, things like that. We still write to each other and - pretend we're powerful mages, or corporate directors for the OTC, or - any of a dozen other things. We dreamed a lot."

She looks down at her plate. "I never thought any of it would ever be real, and now... now I'm dating you."

Eva blushes. "Yeah. Yeah, you are."

"I..." Audrey runs a hand through her hair. "I still don't understand how I got someone so out of my league."

Eva smiles slightly. "Says the girl who called me on my bullshit and convinced me to give my life another chance." 

"Yeah. I guess... it's not so hard to see, from where you're sitting."

Eva nods. "That's what relationships do, Audrey. They let you... see outside yourself, for a brief moment. Love, directed well, is - it doesn't conquer all. But it's strong, and real, and true. It matters."

She looks at Audrey shyly. "... You matter. That's what I've been trying to tell you all this time."

Audrey blushes, and hesitantly nods. "It's still hard to believe, but... it's true. Even if you chose to walk away right now, I - I could go find someone else. I could be happy. I could be whole."

"Yeah," says Eva. "Yeah, you could be." She sets down her fajita.

Audrey smiles slightly. "I don't have plans to leave, though. You're my first, and - I love you. I think I understand now, a little, the depth of what that means."

"Yeah," says Eva. "Love is pretty heavy artillery."

Audrey smiles and flutters her eyelashes at Eva. 

Eva - pauses. Bites the inside of her lip. Taps her chin with a finger. "You want something, don't you?"

Audrey grins. "How does it feel for the shoe to be on the other foot?"

Eva winces, but her smile resurfaces after a moment. "I guess I deserve that. I..." She folds her hands together and leans in. "It's the big question, isn't it?"

Audrey just smiles. 

Eva squares her shoulders. "Okay. Audrey, I want - I want to hypnotize you in the bedroom, and watch how you wriggle beneath my hands. I want to see you kneeling between my legs again. I want to feel your patient, careful touch, and the depth of your adoration. I want... to have sex with you, and this time do it right, the way we should have done it from the beginning. Is that okay?"

Audrey grins. "I thought you'd never ask."

Ten minutes later, Audrey presses Eva into the wall next to Eva's room, and kisses her thoroughly. She's still a little unskilled, but she's had some practice, and it's getting easier for her to get the reactions she wants. Eva's flushed and grinning; she intertwines her fingers with Audrey's, and lets herself give, pliable and willing beneath Audrey's lips. Audrey's hand slips down Eva's side and settles on her ass, lightly squeezing, and Eva giggles and kisses back, squirming up into Audrey's touch. After several long moments of lips and tongues together and the warm firmness of their bodies pressed together through their dresses, Audrey finally pulls away a little and takes an unsteady breath. 

"Isn't it me who should be leading?", Eva teases.

Audrey blushes, and grins. "Show me, then. Make me fall for you. Take what you want." 

Eva slips her thigh out a little, pressing in between Audrey's legs, and wraps a hand into the small of her back and grinds up against her, her mouth moving at the same time to attack Audrey's shoulder and neck with kisses and nibbles. Audrey moans, and stumbles in a little closer, the strength going from her legs; Eva catches her in her embrace, and supports her on her thigh and against her body. 

"Let's get you to a bed," she says, grabbing Audrey's ass and back and pushing off the wall with her legs. Audrey, already clinging to Eva's shoulders, wraps her legs around Eva's back and holds on. 

Eva hip-checks her room door open and carries Audrey across the room and sets her down on the edge of her silk-sheeted bed. She looks across the room to the door, and it shuts by itself. 

"Audrey, I want you so much..." Eva looks down at her, cupping her chin in her hand. "Do you want to be hypnotized? Do you want to - serve on your knees for me, to feel the fire my words can build in you, to abase yourself at my feet and worship, to - make love to me?" 

Audrey turns her head and kisses Eva's palm. "Yes. All those things, and more. I want to be yours, completely, to serve and service and submit. I've been dreaming of your voice controlling me ever since you first hypnotized me - I, um, I went back to my room and masturbated about that, actually." Audrey blushes. 

Eva smiles. "Alright. Then..." She slips her transformation anchor off her neck, and dangles the silver wire pendant in the air in front of Audrey's eyes. It gleams softly in the sourceless light. "Watch the pendant, and listen to my voice. You've done this before, you know how easy it is. No thinking is required." She sways slightly from right to left, and the pendant moves with her. "Following the pendant and listening to my soft, sweet voice. The voice you love, the voice you obey. You trust me, don't you?" 

Audrey nods. "I do." 

Eva starts to swing the pendant slowly. "These silver bands of light, this glittering lattice - it's the first thing that attracted me to you, the first reason that we met. It's intricate, delicate, so precious. Watch how it shines as it sways back and forth. You know what this lattice means, don't you? It means that you can be yourself, that you can choose what you want each day, each minute, each second. And right now, you're choosing to fall, to let that precious freedom pass into the hands of another. Someone who understands, someone who cares, someone who loves you, someone who owns you."

Audrey's eyes track the pendant, and she leans in a little as she listens to Eva's words. "Owns me..." 

Eva's voice softens, growing quieter. "This connection, that slim, silver gleaming thread, so precious, is the basis of all hypnosis. You trust me deeply. With your heart, with your mind, and with your body. And because of that trust, it's ever so easy to let this silver web wrap around you, gathering around your limbs, tightening around your heart, your shoulders, the joints of your limbs. You're caught up in silver, all tangled up in trust. Those silver threads control you, because you choose to let them. These words, this gleaming pendant - they bring you ever deeper and more intimately under my spell. You can feel the threads catching at you, making your body tense and willing, can't you?" 

Audrey blushes and nods. She can feel the tension, the anticipation. There's a silver thread binding up her heart and making it race; a silver thread at her fingers making them dig into the bedsheets; a silver thread as a collar, making her breath unsteady and halting. Her body feels stiff, like a marionette suspended from strings. 

"Silver binding you, controlling you, wrapping around your thoughts now, your mind going frozen, all bound up in silver thread. You can feel your thoughts coming slower, more haltingly, your eyes going unfocussed as you submit to my control. Nothing but a puppet on her strings. Blank, and empty, and obedient. You have the thoughts I allow you to have, no more, no less." Eva smiles softly.

Audrey stares blankly at the pendant, her jaw going slack, her body relaxing as she sits on the edge of the bed. She exhales slowly. 

"Good girl." Eva strokes Audrey's hair softly with her free hand, and slows the pendant even more. "So deep for me. I'm so proud of you for falling so fast and so far. You're being a very good doll for me." She smiles. "You can close your eyes now, and fall. It's okay. I'm here."

Audrey's eyes slip closed, and Eva stills the pendant. "Good girl. In a moment I'm going to give you some commands, twitch those silver threads a little bit to see how you dance. I'm going to make you serve me in the most intimate of ways. You'd like that, wouldn't you?"

Audrey nods softly, her eyes still closed. 

"Very good girl. Those silver threads wrapping up around your limbs, gathering you in close and binding you to my will. At the softest word from me, those silver threads dance, and your body moves without you having to have a single thought. See in your mind's eye how they wrap around my fingers? And with one little twitch, your body knows to kneel. Kneel for me, Audrey." 

Audrey falls out of bed and onto her knees on the carpeted floor with a thump. 

"Good girl. Your head arching upwards, your mouth falling open, your body so ready to serve and to service."

Audrey follows Eva's commands, shifting upwards onto her knees and opening wide, tongue lolling out of her mouth. 

Eva smiles. "Good girl." She pulls her dress off over her head and tosses it aside onto the floor, followed shortly thereafter by her bra and panties. Audrey twitches at the soft thump as the dress falls, but doesn't open her eyes. 

Eva steps in, and guides Audrey's head to her inner thigh. "Kiss," she instructs. 

Audrey noses in, and starts to kiss and nibble. Eva braces herself against the bed with one hand, and lets out a long exhalation. "Ah, yes..." She bites her inner lip. "Lifting your hands to stroke and grip as well, pressing in close. There's a strand of silver wrapped around your heart, tugging forth your most passionate desires. You want this. You need this. Every kiss makes the fire in you burn a little hotter, sensation lighting up across your body, so sensitive and needy and wanting. Every touch of your lips against my skin makes a shiver of electricity go through your clit." 

Audrey tenses and moans into Eva's thigh, her kisses getting hungrier, her hands rising to squeeze her ass and thigh and pull her in closer. Eva teeters a little bit as sensation runs through her, Audrey's tongue already flickering across her sex, warm and soft and wet. "G-good girl," she says, steadying herself. "Very good girl." She looks down at Audrey for a moment, then over at the bed she's leaning against haphazardly. "Ah... Back a little, precious doll. Feel the strings pulling you away from that hunger. It's so good and yet you can't indulge it just yet and that just makes it burn even brighter... Your hands falling away, lifeless on their strings, sitting back as you come to attention for your Mistress." 

Audrey's hands fall as if all the strength has suddenly gone from them, and hang limply by her sides. She shifts back, sitting back on her heels, and takes a shuddering breath. Eva levers herself up off the bed, and takes a step back. "Good doll. All bound up in silver, so obedient and blank. Open your eyes for me." 

Audrey's eyes flicker open, though her gaze is still unfocused. 

"Look at me," Eva commands, and Audrey's gaze snaps to her face. "Look deep into my eyes. In a moment, your Mistress is going to put her Doll to her proper use. But it wouldn't be kind to make Mistress do it on the floor, now would it?"

Audrey shakes her head slightly. "No, Mistress." 

"So, my good doll is going to stand, and she's going to get into bed, and lie down comfortably on the pillows in such a position as to allow her Mistress to kneel over her face." Eva's voice is wicked sharp and gleeful. "Feeling those strings tug, tug, tug you up, lifting you like a puppet..." 

Audrey stands, her motions stiff and deliberate, then sits down on the edge of the bed. Moving one of the pillows a little further down from the head of the bed, she lies back and puts her head on it, staring up at the ceiling blankly, her mouth lolling open. 

Eva flushes a little at the picture that Audrey presents, so blank and ready, so eager and willing - but that's what she wanted, that's what she asked for. She crawls up into bed and straddles Audrey's head, bracing herself against the headboard. Her body is tense and ready, her sex slick with anticipation. "My good girl is going to get what she wants, now. To serve. To obey. To pleasure. To be used." She strokes a hand slowly through Audrey's hair. "Is my good girl ready?" 

"Yes, Mistress." 

"Wonderful." She lowers herself gently against Audrey's open mouth. "Feel the strings tug you to service me, pulling forth that desire, animating your tongue, your hands, your mouth, your head. All of you bends towards the necessity to please and pleasure and serve me... Now."

Audrey whimpers, and then starts lapping, her body tense, her breathing shallow. She presses in hard and licks like her life depends on it. 

"Mmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhh..." Eva giggles. "Good doll. With every lick, feel your pleasure build, the joy of service, your just reward. It flashes like lightning through your core, tingling and tensing, so, ah, strong, so powerful. Every lick builds on the last, bathing you in comfort and bliss. It feels so good." Her hand tenses on the headboard as she grinds against Audrey's eager mouth.

Audrey moans into Eva's sex, her thighs pressing against each other beneath her dress, her hands rising to grip her waist and thighs as Audrey digs her tongue deeper inside her Mistress, her whole body singing with the joy of service and the need to obey. Silver strings surrounding her, making her dance, making her Eva's inside and out... 

Eva shudders softly as Audrey laps greedily at her, her body tensing as well. "Yes, good doll, more, more... Pressing deeper, thrusting harder, feeling the tension build, the need, the fire..." She growls lowly. "Mine. My doll. Mine to control and play with. Mine to love and adore. Mine, mine, mine..." She trails off into a gasp, clenching around Audrey's tongue, her hips jerking a little against Audrey's mouth. "Mine..." 

Audrey redoubles her efforts, dragging her tongue over Eva's clitoris, her body singing joy and pleasure and submission. Her world narrows to the cleft between Eva's legs and the need to make her come. Even breathing is less important than making Eva climax now.

Eva shudders as Audrey's tongue presses against her clit, and a strained whimper slips from her lips. "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, more, just like that -" 

Audrey focusses in, lapping firmly, and Eva's tensing hands make the wood of the headboard groan and creak as she nears the edge. "Audrey," she moans, "Audrey -" 

And finally, in one last, glorious shudder of ecstasy, Eva tips over the edge and comes, her breath stopping completely for a long moment as her whole body tenses uncontrollably. 

Audrey keeps lapping, though, not having been commanded to stop. 

"A-aaaaaahhhhhh!" Eva gasps, and jerks her hips away from Audrey's lapping tongue - but Audrey follows, still determined to give Eva more - and Eva whimpers, and tenses, and shudders, too far gone to even tell Audrey to stop - and finally she comes from from a second, painfully sharp orgasm to find Audrey still licking - 

Eva grabs a fistful of Audrey's hair with one hand and physically pulls her off of her sex. "G-good," she pants, "Good girl, that's enough, that's - that's more than enough. Fuck." 

Audrey, even beneath all her strings, smiles massively. 

Eva blushes, and then the humor of it hits her and she falls apart into giggles. She pets Audrey, tracing her hand through her pink locks, and grins as well. "Fuck, such an overachiever. Alright, darling, you can come up now. Feeling the strings fall away, unravelling from your limbs... Soft, warm heat enveloping your body as you rise from the depths of trance... Blankness washing away as you wake, ready to start a new day." 

Audrey nuzzles against Eva's thigh, and takes a slow breath. Her eyelids flutter. "... Mmmmm.... Eva?" 

Eva smiles down at Audrey, fingers in her hair, and nods. "Yeah. Wake up, darling. How was your first time being under in the bedroom?"

Audrey kisses Eva's skin, and looks up at her with adoration in her eyes. "It was... Mmmmmmm... The doll thing wasn't quite what I expected, but - I kind of liked it? And being under your control is so good." She smiles. 

Eva smiles. "I'm glad. It was... intense, how you came after me there. I think - we kind of rushed it, didn't we?" She blushes a little. 

Audrey nods. "Mmmmm. And I still want more." 

"You didn't get to come there, you were so caught up in attending to me..." Eva smiles a little. "I'm sorry, I was so occupied I forgot to instruct you to get yourself off... And my technique was sloppy, too..."

Audrey rolls her eyes. "So fix it, Ms. Hypnotist." 

"You are kind of a brat, aren't you?" Eva's voice has a note of wonder in it. "Only your second time and already you're telling your domme what to do... Not that you're wrong, but - it's a far cry from how you started off." 

"Yeah," says Audrey. "It really is." She squirms backwards under Eva and tries to sit up; Eva shifts backwards to let her, and Audrey wraps her arms around Eva in a firm embrace. Audrey tilts her head slightly, and goes in for the kiss, and Eva meets her eagerly. It's soft, delicate, and distinctly unchaste. 

"You're right," Audrey says. "It is better in context." 

"Told you so." Eva smiles and presses her forehead to Audrey's.

"... I love you," says Audrey.

"I love you too," says Eva. "More than I ever expected to. You're everything I needed but didn't know how to look for." 

Audrey kisses Eva again, and softly presses her down onto the bed. Eva gives willingly, slipping down beneath Audrey, her legs wrapping gently around her. 

"I..." Audrey blushes, realizing the position she's ended up in atop Eva, lying between her bare legs, with her own dress all in disarray. "I want more." 

Eva smiles, and slips a finger down along Audrey's neck and lets it linger in the curve of her collarbone. "Take what you want, then." 

Audrey shivers, and bites the inside of her cheek. "I want..." She presses Eva down into the bed. "I want you. I want to be yours, and I want - I want you to be mine." 

"I'm already yours," Eva breathes. "So come claim me." 

Audrey's hand slips down Eva's side and hesitantly alights on her breast. "You - you're okay to keep going? It sounded like - you came, right?" 

Eva smiles slightly. "You think I spent all that money on preserving my memories, and didn't spare any for having fun? I can take it, darling. Come and get me." 

Audrey cracks a smile as well. "I wonder when you'll run out of surprises for me."

"Hopefully never." Eva winks. "Now are we going to talk, or are we going to fuck?" 

Audrey sits back for a moment, and pulls her dress off over her head. She's not wearing any panties, and her cock's already standing at attention. She waggles her eyebrows.

Eva laughs. "Brave girl!" And she reaches down between her legs, and spreads herself for Audrey. 

Audrey settles in atop Eva a little awkwardly, guiding herself in, and lays atop her heavily. "Fuck," she moans. "That's - wow." She lies there for a moment, just feeling the heat and slickness enveloping her, the living warmth of Eva's sex. 

Eva smiles, and clenches softly. Audrey lets out a quiet whine. 

"It's a lot, isn't it?" 

"Yeah," says Audrey. "It... really is." 

"Are you okay to start moving?" She runs a hand down Audrey's back. 

"Yeah," says Audrey. "I think so." And she thrusts, grinding in her hips, then jerkily pulling back, the unfamiliar motions a little difficult for her. 

Eva kisses Audrey's shoulder, and grinds back up against her. "Go on, that's it..." 

After a few more awkward thrusts, Audrey starts to find a rhythm, assisted by Eva's practiced motions. "Fuck," she gasps, "Eva..." 

Eva nibbles at her shoulder, and presses her in close. "I love you." 

"I love you too, Eva, fuck -" 

"It's okay, come whenever you want to." Eva's voice has a teasing note in it. 

Audrey blushes, and nods into Eva's shoulder. She thrusts hard and fast, feeling the slick embrace of Eva's inner walls milking her, like lightning flashing from the root of her cock all the way up into her brain, and before long - 

"Eva," she moans, "close -" 

"Go ahead," says Eva with a purr in her voice. "Come for me, darling." 

Audrey bucks one last time, Eva's honeyed words ringing in her ears, and comes deep into the willing folds of Eva's sex. 

"Gooooooood girl," Eva says, stroking Audrey's hair as she lies atop her, panting. "You were beautiful. A little unskilled, we have some things to work on, but - you have the basics." She grins, and wraps her arms around Audrey's back, pulling her tight down against her body. "Mine." 

"Yours," sighs Audrey. "Yours forever." 

"Forever is a long time," says Eva. "... but I'd be glad to spend it with you." 

They hold each other, close as close, and the world slips away.