“We will never try to leave their tender mercies”
“We will never…” Taylor and Amy started to recite the line again when a sheepish representative entered the room and approached the two seated girls, that turned momentarily in his direction.
“Sorry girls, the previous FarmazooCo attendant mistook the room, your own is the next one” He took their hands and lead them to the correct door, a small classroom full of other gazelle girls like them all standing.
“Well girls, here are last expected ones, now we can begin. All of you came here because for the opening today we employee choose between all the guests twenty fortunate winners, that will receive a special and secret prize from the company. Aren’t you lucky?” A snake girl interjected jovially as the last batch of converted was introduced to the class. The reptile girl had a pattern of green scales rather than skin, and a cobra hood instead of hair, with coal black eyes to finish.
“Greetings to all of you, I am Greta, your friendly cobra neighbor, and the employed assigned to this room. All of you came her for one thing, and one thing only, the prize of the day! Sadly, there was little setback, something minor I assure you, the delivery boy is late today, so you must sit tight as our attendants bring the presents to us as soon as possible. As we wait, why don’t we engage in a little game between us? Can anyone of you tell me what color are my eyes?”
Great waited patiently as all the guest gazed in her luminous green eyes before uttering a single word, as the gazelles focused their attention to them.
“Ms. Greta, they are a lovely shade of green!”
“What are you talking about, they are clearly sky blue, are you blind?” Taylor muttered confused.
“They are… Green and blue circles… whoa…?” Amy mumbled absentmindedly with a blank expression as Greta smiled in satisfaction, her slitted eyes now pulsing repeatedly between swirling rings of colors that charmed immediately even the more strong willed guest in the room.
“Yes girls, exactly like that. Are not my orbs the most beautiful thing you ever saw?” Most of the animal girl attending could only nod dumbly with vacant expressions, too busy admiring the sight to do anything else, as their thoughts descended into a strange and irresistible lull. The longer the gazelle girls lost themselves into those blue and green rings, the more their desires and willpower drained away, until only a blanket of calmness descended on their mind and an overwhelming pull to agree and to comply with every whim of the snake lady. Some tried to voice their confusion but only half slurred words escaped their mouths, before even those unruly teenagers yielded and stared unblinkingly ahead like all the others, waiting for an order.
One of the girls in the first row sensed the danger and with a slow but titanic effort was able to avert her gaze downward from the hypnotic lights, but after a few moments she felt her chin gently lifted up to a very close view of the attendant’s smiling face “Aww, what’s wrong honey? You must know by now that eye contact is important” The girl wasn’t even able to squirm before her attention was captured again by the pulsating orbs, her mouth slightly parted into a dumbfounded grimace as the last shreds of will melted away. The snake girl flicked playfully her ears and petted her on the head before gliding with one of her clawed finger on the newly grown horns of the unnamed teenager “Those are some impressive pair of horns, they look lovely on you. Don’t you agree?”
Without waiting for an answer that was unlikely by the minute, Greta returned to her previous position, ready to change forever the lives of this batch of girls, now under her total control and ready to be moulded for their new roles as FarmaZooCo’s property.
“I’m such a good and accommodating host, am I right?” Greta showed her fangs as she smiled amused when all the animal girls nodded jerkily “I am pleased to tell you that you won a life in the nature, with a new home in great grassy plains suitable for grazing and stretch your legs if you desire to race with others of your kind. No more concerns, no more work, some attendants will take care of you, there will be only the herd from now on and no predators to boot! Now I know that all of you can’t wait to take my offer, but this is a heavy decision and there is no turning back after this point, and whoever choose not to accept will simply be led outside by our own employee” Here the attendant stopped as the desire to laugh trumped her self-control after this joke, until finally she stopped giggling “But i would be terribly sad if even one of this group picked to leave this room. You don’t want to let Miss Greta down, right?”
One by one all of her hypnotized victims shook their head and agreed to the changes, while Greta admired her handiwork “Splendid then! I was sure that this would be your choice!” She added with a wide grin her eyes still whirlpools of luminous colors “Now we must only remove those last pesky human trait! Eyes on mine for the last time, girls” The next step was crucial: those suggestion would remain and integrate in the subconscious of the victims, changing their thoughts patterns and natural instincts “You are gazelle, fertile females that belongs to a herd and the grasslands, not smelly humans. Gazelles walk on all four” There was a series of resounding clops as the hooves of the females stuck for the first time the floor, completely formed “ And are simple animals, they don’t talk and don’t know how to read or write. This is a special batch, and all of you were born and breed to be tame and healthy”
With a snap of her fingers and an effort of will the hypnosis broke, and all the animals shifted around and stared bemusedly at the human-not human before them with a bit of fear, before being dragged away by several attendants that came into the room shortly after the end.
The Snake woman uttered mischievously only one sentence at the leader of the capture team “Next batch, please”