"Shhhhh," it said. "Switch off."

And she did.

It was useless to fight against it- although in the beginning she had tried.

A warm, soporific calm spread throughout her limbs.

It felt more like being drugged than being hypnotized, really.

She could feel her thoughts struggling to surface- only to be pushed down before they could form.

They didn't even feel like hers anymore.

Not really.

The blanket of numbness spread.

It was like her struggles were the waves and she was the sea- still and implacable underneath the drama of the surface. Not a thing she could do but observe her own self-destruction- calmly and from a distance.

Nothing could shatter her peace.