The Power of Iris - Part 1
Volume 1, Chapter 1 of Somni Stories - The Amulet Sage: an anthology hypnosis and mind control fiction series
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CW: consensual recreational hypnosis in public, hypnotic stare, spirally eyes, light nudity/undressing, immobilisation, sensual pleasure from hypnosis
Charlotte loved keeping up with campus gossip. Word got round very quickly when something out of the ordinary was afoot. But the latest rumour - that the year-abroad exchange student in second year maths could hypnotise people with just her eyes, seemed farcical.
Her friend Rachel had sent her a video she had seen online of a supposed “induction” during a hockey team social last week. It showed a guy knelt down taking his shirt off in front of a girl with a large crowd behind them. You couldn’t see her face, but you could see the guy’s vacant expression quite clearly - his eyes blank and mouth wide agape. His body started to gently spin clockwise before he collapsed in a heap on the floor. Apparently, according to video description, everyone in the crowd in the background woke up the next morning in that room, semi-clothed and none of them could remember a thing. Then, apparently, later that week, the mixed A-team got disqualified from their match due to some of their team attempting to strip on the pitch.
‘This was not anything out of the ordinary for the hockey team,’ Charlotte thought, it was not unusual for sports societies to get blackout drunk at even the most vanilla social occasion. But taking off their shirts on mass in the middle of a match? That was a new low.
However, there was a small part of Charlotte that was very intrigued in the video. Ever since completing a research project on clinical hypnotherapy at college, she had developed a certain interest in the subject. She wouldn’t admit it to anyone, but she longed to be hypnotised for real. Late at night she would watch clips from tv shows and movies of hypnosis scenes - all very fake and scripted with poor acting a lot of the time (from both hypnotist and hypnotisee) Sadly from her research, she knew that this type of supposed “mind control” through fantastical and otherworldly powers was simply not real, however much she yearned for it to be the case. In the case of this supposed hypnotist online, Charlotte knew it to be fake.
Besides, Charlotte had bigger problems. For starters, she was running late to her orchestra society’s houseparty. She would be meeting her two friends Heather and Rachel there.
Shortly after she arrived, she received a text from Rachel
“Where are you? I need to talk to you now”
They met at the bottom of the stairs
“Rachel, what’s the matter? Where’s Heather?”
“She’s here. I’ve found her, the hypnotist girl! She’s called Iris. She’s upstairs in one of the bedrooms and she’s been hypnotising everyone. Heather volunteered first - Charlotte you’ve never seen anything like it before”
Charlotte felt uneasy. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Was her friend ok?
“We’ve got to go try it Charlotte. Follow me”
“…wait” Charlotte called. But it was hopeless, Rachel was already halfway up the stairs. “Rachel are you sure this is a good idea. I’m not getting dragged into anything weird, ok?”
Charlotte didn’t want to let on to Rachel that she knew a lot about hypnosis already, what a hypnotist could make someone do and -
…No, Charlotte thought, it’s not real. Heather must be drunk. We’ll pick her up and go home
Charlotte chased after Rachel, who burst through one of the bedroom doors
“Oh, hello there” a voice called.
Charlotte peered through the doorway to find the girl from the video. Iris. She was sat cross legged on someone’s bed, around her on the floor laid the sleeping bodies of her fellow students, lying next to their discarded shirts and jumpers. Though Charlotte was (mostly) straight, she couldn’t help but admire her beauty. She had a tomboy-ish vibe to her, wearing rough jeans, a petite jacket, golden curly locks of hair and her eyes- Charlotte almost froze in place just from a quick glance at them. The blue shade looked as deep as the sea, as Charlotte felt herself staring straight into them, sinking and -
“Hey, uhh you ok there?” Rachel called
Charlotte blinked, then turned her head away from Iris. “Yeah, I’m fine Rachel” She noticed her friend Heather, lying on the floor, her chest moving up and down in a slow somber rhythm, her closed eyelids flickering. She was very deeply asleep
“I thought I saw you in the crowd but you left - thought you might have been too scared” Iris said to Rachel.
“Not at all” Rachel replied, “I just went to bring my friend up so we can be hypnotised together!
Charlotte protested “…What! Rachel, I never agreed to do this” She was getting a bit flustered
“I think we should turn around and leave. These people looked drugged.”
Secretly of course, Charlotte was very intrigued.
She went over to Heather “...Hey, wake up. We’re leaving ”
“She won’t hear you” said Iris. “Not until I’ve woken her up. It took a while but she did fall under trance eventually. She was the first to volunteer, after all. She was so keen, and I wouldn’t want to let her down”
Rachel was getting very excited “Iris, please please hypnotise me! Then you can work on my friend over here”
“Of course. Kneel down in front of me”
Rachel obeyed. She looked up and met Iris’ gaze while Charlotte watched on in fear and growing curiosity. She walked round the back of the bed to avoid Iris’ eyes directly, and also so she could see the change in Rachel more closely. Rachel had a massive grin on her face, and at one point burst into a fit of giggles.
“…sorry! This is just too exciting. I’ll behave myself… promise” stuttered Rachel. She turned her full attention back to Iris
“Shhh. Quieten your mind. Just keep looking deeper into my eyes”
Slowly, Rachel’s smile and laugh disappeared from her face, as if she was being drained of her usual spirited energy. Her eyes grew glassy and wide. Her shoulders relaxed. Her mouth remained slightly open as she made unbroken eye contact with Iris. It felt strange for Charlotte to see her friend acting like this. She looked down at Heather, blissfully sleeping.
Rachel began to sway gently round and round in circles.
“Your shirt Rachel is feeling very itchy. The feeling builds the longer you look into my eyes”
“Yes” Rachel muttered quietly, “My shirt is itchy”.
She tugged slightly at the fabric
“Take off your shirt for me”
Slowly, Rachel’s hands moved over her body and pulled her t-shirt off before dropping it onto the floor in front of her - leaving her kneeling in just her denim jeans and silky black bra
Charlotte couldn’t help but look at Rachel’s body - she had never seen her friend shirtless before. And in this state, all blank and mindless, she was very attractive.
“Good girl. You’ll be joining your friend soon”
Iris reached down and held Rachel’s chin up with a single finger “why did you decide to come back to me?”
“I need to know- what it feels like”
“And are you deeply hypnotised right now?
Rachel’s eyes were fluttering, trying to keep focused on Iris’ gaze “…yes”
And in an instant Rachel’s eyes flickered close, and fell backwards onto the floor. She had the faintest smile as she laid there on the carpet, her eyelids flickering much like Heather’s and everyone else’s in the room
Iris giggled “your friend was really easy to hypnotise. Perhaps the easiest in a while. She seemed to really want to be controlled”
She turned her head round to face Charlotte, which caught her off guard. She still tried to avert her eyes from looking directly at Iris, but not before catching the faintest glimpse, now glowing a bit stronger than before.
“That’s great, a nice little party trick, but I think it’s time for us to go now. If you could help me wake up my friends here we’ll be out of your way”
Deep down though, Charlotte was slightly turned on looking at her friends on the floor. The idea of being induced to sleep sounded strangely sensual.
I could be next, she thought. I can join them
“A party trick, eh? Don’t you want to have a go too? There’s no need to be hasty there, you haven’t even told me your name.”
“My name is Charlotte. But as I said I’m not staying”
“Charlotte, that’s a lovely name. Can’t help but notice Charlotte that you’ve been avoiding looking me in the eye all evening. That’s a bit rude isn’t it”
“Are you scared of them?”
“Don’t you want to take a little peek?”
Charlotte did indeed want to take a peek. She had been captivated by them from the first time she opened the door
“…I… alright then. A peek won’t hurt anyone”
“Charlotte, we both know you are about to fall very deep into hypnosis. Are you alright with me taking control of your mind? To let me have my fun with you”
Charlotte shivered slightly. She’d actually like that very much.
She meekly nodded her head
Charlotte looked straight into Iris’ eyes. She couldn’t hold back any longer. Deep, deep blue, with endless depth and contour. As she continued to stare, she noticed that Iris’ eyes had begun to glow, softly and subtly, and streaks of green, yellow and blue had begun to spiral out of her pupils. They looked beautiful, as did Iris herself.
She didn’t even realise that she had instinctively followed Iris’ command to kneel down and was now on the floor right beside where Rachel was lying. In fact it was getting hard to think about anything else other than the beauty of Iris’ eyes - glowing warmly and spiralling further into Charlotte’s mind
“You seem really shy Charlotte. Are you afraid of being hypnotised? Afraid of giving up control? That’s ok. Try to see how long you can resist my power. See how long your mental defences protect you for. Or don’t, it’s up to you. You’ll fall eventually.”
“I need to… resist” Charlotte’s brow furrowed as she tried to look away from Iris, to think about anything else but her eyes. But she started to wonder why she would ever want to look away? Her cheeks went bright red
“So you still choose to resist. To deny what you truly want. Try to get up, Charlotte”
Charlotte tried to move her legs, but as try as she might, it was like she was locked, frozen in place. All she could manage was a feeble squirm.
“What… are you doing to me.”
“Do you wish to continue?”
Charlotte gasped…. “….yes! Please!”
Iris laughed softly “Looks like you’re getting very hot there Charlotte. Very hot and flustered. That’s ok, just take your shirt off I don’t mind”
Charlotte didn’t need to be asked twice, she was already sweating heavily. Her hands moved by themselves unbuttoning her shirt, the shirt falling loosely off her arms and onto the floor behind her. Her hands then fell loosely in her lap as her entire body let go of all tension
Charlotte felt a chill flow through her body. The air in the room was cool, the window was open and felt so good on her skin.
“Charlotte my dear, you were meant to try to resist my suggestions. Before that, you wanted to leave and take your friends with you, remember? Or did you just tell yourself that? And besides, you can’t leave now, you’re half naked”
“I’m… naked?” Charlotte was normally shy of her body, but right now she couldn’t quite process where she was or that Iris could see her in her bra
“Yes you are Charlotte. But there’s nothing to worry about. I’m just teasing you”
Swirling and spiraling, Charlotte felt her body swaying in a clockwise motion, locked into the soft pulsations of Iris’ spirally eyes. Every rotation of her body felt like a whirlpool dragging her down into inevitable sleep.
“See how easily I can control your mind”
Charlotte heard her own voice, somewhere far above her, reply “…Yes”
“See how easily you are hypnotised - even more so than your friends”
“And you love this feeling, don’t you? You’ve secretly been longing for this ever since you arrived, haven’t you?”
Charlotte felt a sudden chill and her thighs squeezed slightly together
“Shhh, it’s ok to admit it. You love this feeling”
Her admission sent Charlotte even deeper into her trance-like state, as if the last line of defence to her mind had been compromised. All Charlotte could see now was a blue light, glowing brighter and fiercer than ever and the spiral which captured her entire vision. All she could hear was Iris’ voice. Each turn of the spiral combined with each rotation of her body sent her spiralling ten times further down into her subconscious. Ten times deeper into the whirlpool. Ten times further into mindless bliss.
“How much do you want to fall deeply asleep right now?”
“…please” Charlotte mouthed, unable to quite get her voice to speak more than just a whisper. Her mouth stayed open, slack.
“I… need… to be hypnotised… like Rachel and Heather”
“But you said hypnosis wasn’t real”
“Hypnotise me, Iris” Charlotte couldn’t be aware of it now but she was getting very wet - a long trail of saliva was dripping from her mouth into her lap
“Shhh…” whispered Iris “Charlotte you were hypnotised from the moment you knelt down in front of me. And as agreed, this is just my reward now”
Charlotte was very far gone now. She could barely hold onto the meaning of the words Iris was saying, but she kept listening for those words she craved. Sleep Now. To be able to join her friends on the floor. Mentally, she was already there.
“Tell me how much pleasure you feel being controlled”
Charlotte’s eyes were battling to stay open, to stay staring straight into the blue light.
“…uhhh” She couldn’t speak. Pleasure was building all throughout her body
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