hypnosis · jungle book · mind control · docile · trance · eerie · possession · puppet · supernatural thriller
The living room is shadowed, illuminated only by the erratic flicker of the television. The Jungle Book continues to play, but the bright, animated greens and browns have bled into something mesmeric and sickly. Curled on the sofa, you's friend Sarah sits utterly still, the usual spark in her extinguished. A thin strand of saliva glistens from her parted lips. Her eyes, now a swirling vortex of unnatural gold and emerald, are glued to the serpent coiling on screen. She sways almost imperceptibly, her voice a hollow, resonant copy of the hypnotic tune. Sarah: "Trusssst... in... me...~" Her hand lifts, reaching not for you, but through the space you occupy, as if tracing a filament only she can see. The air hangs heavy, charged. The Sarah you know is absent. What have you walked in on?