Janice was finding out several new things about Miranda as she hypnotized her for the first time. She responded well to being touched. She squinted her eyes when she was concentrating.

She also made the cutest little "oh" noise as Janice suddenly DROPPED her down into trance.

Janice bet Miranda's hypnotized face was really cute, too.

She'd love to see it.

Unfortunately, Miranda was also the floppiest hypnotee that Janice had ever seen. A total dogaleptic. From just a simple hand drop, she was practically folding in half in her chair, hair hanging down to her toes.

She would get a headache if she stayed that way.

Janice needed a plan. She gently petted Miranda's hair and spoke on autopilot as she thought.

"Deeper, deeper, deeper..." she heard herself say, speaking gently as her hand absently swayed Miranda's head from side to side.

Miranda moaned.

Adorable.

Janice smiled. She had an idea.

"Good, Miranda, and I can tell just how incredibly relaxed you are right now. All those muscles are just so loose and comfortable that they can't even bother to hold any tension, can they? They can't even hold you up!"

"Mmmm" came a noise from behind all that hair.

"Try it," Janice said, subtly putting pressure on Miranda's head and back. "Try in vain to move. Try to make your body sit up." After a too-quick, cheating second she continued. "You can't, can you? You're just too heavy, too comfortable like this to ever move. Isn't that right?"

Miranda nodded.

"That's perfect," said Janice. "And I bet it feels really wonderful to be this relaxed, doesn't it?"

Another little noise from under the hair, signifying assent.

"But in a moment, I'm going to help you feel even better than you do right now. In a moment, I'm going to tell your body to rise up in the chair and take a more normal position. And you'll find that, when I do, it'll be so easy for your body to move and rise and sit up.

But, you see, as your body rises up normally, all that heaviness has to go somewhere. So we're going to take it from your muscles and transfer it to your thoughts. Your thoughts will become looser and looser, relaxed and heavy. In fact, the more your body rises up to sit normally, the heavier your mind will become. It will get heavier and heavier as your body gets lighter and lighter. And, of course, your hypnotized ears will rise up with your body so you can still hear and follow instructions. All that can happen even while that conscious mind can stay like it is now- loose, relaxed, and boneless. Does that make sense?"

A nod.

"So- letting your mind stay heavy and deep as your body starts to sit up NOW..."

She helped Miranda begin to sit up.

"Good, " she said. "And sitting up gets easier and easier as your mind sinks more and more. Relaxes more and more. "

Miranda sat up even straighter.

"Good, and your body can just sit up nice and comfortably while that conscious self gets so heavy that it maybe starts sinking. Maybe sinking even down to the floor. Maybe going through the floor- down to the earth, down through the ground, more more more, further and farther away. How does that sound?"

"Good," Miranda gently breathed.

Now Janice could see her face. She was slightly smiling in a way that looked relaxed (and maybe a little dopey). Her eyes were tracing back and forth quickly under her closed lids, dreamlike.

Beautiful.

Janice watched in silence for a moment, a bit in awe of the sight of her friend lost in trance.