"You're so deep, aren't you?"

"...so deep"

"IMPOSSIBLY deep"

"impossibly deep"

"So deep it wasn't even possible, isn't that right?"

"Hmmm?"

"You're Impossibly deep"

They settled. "Impossibly deep", they repeated confidently.

"So deep that you weren't even here. So deep that this trance didn't even happen. So deep that all my suggestions were your own thoughts, isn't that right? Because you couldn't have been this deep."

"Hmmm?

"Not possible to be this deep, isn't that right?"

"Mmmm not possible.Too deep."

"And if this trance wasn't possible, they were just your own ideas all along, weren't they?"

"Mmm." More confident now. "My own ideas."

"All of your submission. All of your obedience. All of your new habits. Just your own ideas, right?"

"Mmm right."

"Very good."

I smiled.