"Dumbing down" It stated on the label. It was getting late and everyone was going to sleep. Sarah was unknowingly listening to the hypnosis CD. It was only two days later before Mara saw a difference. Sarah was drooling. "You have, uh, drool." Mara responded. Sarah looked at her and said "Oh." She did nothing to wipe it up. The next few days were boring, but it wasn't much time until Mara asked her to do some math. All the questions were something a 1st grader could answer. "Skip any you don't know." Mara stated. "Okay, why do I need to do this, anyway?" Sarah asked. "Because I need some help with this." Mara responded. "Okay." "0+0... I don't know." Sarah stated. It was the first question. When she handed it back, none of them were done. A princess was crudely drawn on the paper. Mara smiled and Sarah giggled. The next few days were also uneventful. "Can you write your name?" Mara asked. Mara asked as if Sarah was a 3 year old child. "Yep!" Sarah cheered. Given a piece of paper and a pencil, Sarah wrote... something. It was mostly a bunk of lines and scribbles. It was illegible. "Good job!" Mara stated. It was a horrible job, anyone could recognize that. The best anyone could say about it would be "Good try." The next day Sarah was asked to write what words she knew. "Yep!" Sarah responded. She drew scribbles and stuff. "This is nice!" Mara said. It was 3 days until the next thing happened. Mara went to Sarah and asked her what her name was. "Woof!" She responded. Mara pat her on the head. She stuck her tongue out happily. She put the CD in and knew she would need help putting in on. The night came and Mara put it on her head as she slept. She noted the next CD was...