After some thinking while Aidan was still silenced and frozen in place by his earlier comments Mark had decided what he wanted to do with Aidan.
Slightly grinning to himself, Mark stated: "From now on you won´t be able to hurt me in any way or destroy anything that belongs to me. By the way everything you own now belongs to me. And you yourself do as well."
Aidan felt something deep within him change. It was as if his very soul was now bound to Mark and that let him fear what else Mark would do with him. But he still couldn´t voice any of his thoughts.
"You will be able to move and talk again, but because I own you you will stay by my side until I say otherwise."
Aidans body relaxed his frozen muscles, nearly letting him fall down. Finding his voice, he said: “Thanks for letting me move again. But Mark, please stop this before something happens that one of us will regret later.”
Still grinning, Mark answered: “Oh I have already planned what I will do with you and I don´t think I will regret anything about that, Aidan. First off, your body will no longer need any food or water to survive. Instead you can get your energy from the light and air around you. While you no longer need it your digestive system will vanish, no need for a stomach or bowel without anything to do.”
Aidan looked at Mark horrified. While it was a interesting idea to just absorb energy for his needs it was cruel to completely forbid him to eat or drink by taking the needed organs away. Then he felt pain from within his belly. It felt like everything inside it was being pressed together and squeezed until nothing was left. From the outside you couldn´t see anything.
“Now that you can survive without eating we can move on. It was fun knowing you, Aidan, but there is some other part of you that should vanish. Your brain will shrink slowly until nothing is left, erasing your personality, your feelings and memories with it. Your body will work on instinct and on my commands like a robot or a completely obedient slave. But then in your empty head will grew something similar to a new brain, with will only save what you need to know. For now it only should remember that I´m your owner and master and everything I say you do. Goodbye Aidan.”
Aidan felt the same pain as before with his stomach, but now it was located in his head. But that was the least of his concerns now. “Mark no, you can´t do this. Please, you are effective killing me with that. I thought we were friends.” He had tears in his eyes, not believing that Mark could be this cruel to him. The pain was slowly numbing, but that was part of the shrinking. The smaller his old brain got, the fewer emotions and feelings he had. If finished he would be as cold as a rock. And every second he lost more of his memories. He forgot about his family, about school and friends, everything. His inner panic was also vanishing the more he forgot.
Why was he angry at his master? He had only tried to cure his headache and it seemed working.
Not that he ever had a headache before. But for the lack of information, what was a headache and why did he bother with something like that? And who was he to question his master?
Mark could see the lights dimming in Aidans eyes until nothing was left. Before him stood the empty shell of his former friend, now nothing but his mindless slave, ready to do everything he asked him to.
“You will respond to the word slave, but only if I say it and we are alone. Otherwise you respond to the name Aidan. To others you are my loyal friend.” The body, now again named Aidan, nodded.