Somehow I managed to make it through that class, though I doubted I’d get a good grade for my… I’m not even sure I’m allowed to call it “art”. Thankfully up next was lunch. Usually a rather solemn affair for me, but this time I was surprised to see both Gloria and Constance. It was an interesting view to see Constance peck on a bowl of noodles with peanut sauce, while Gloria wolfed (tigered? lioned?) down a tuna sandwich.
Yes, I did notice both occasionally throwing annoyed looks at each other, but I tried to ignore it for now.
Too soon the lunch period was over and to her dismay and Gloria’s joy Constance had to get to her next class, while Gloria and I happened to share a free period.
Once Constance was out of earshot, Gloria turned to me with a rather bashful look on her face. “Hey Greg, do you trust me?”
I didn't really know her till today, but she also never gave me a reason to distrust her and she did seem like an honest person. “Uhm, of course I do.”
Her face (and her ears) immediately lifted up. “Great, can you follow me? I-If you have nothing better to do, that is.”
I really did have nothing better to do and so I ended up going with her. She led me into a distant corner of the school library, which I was certain I had never been in before. It actually looked quite comfortable, even featuring beanbags for reading. Didn't know the school had those.
“Don't worry, nobody ever comes here around this time, we won't be disturbed,” Gloria said as she sat down and offered me a spot beside her. “So… what do you know about hypnosis?”
“You mean the type where some guy from the circus makes you cluck like a chicken?”
“Yes… well, kinda. There are many other uses for hypnosis, even therapeutic ones. A-And as long as you do it properly and with someone you can trust you can't be made to do anything you don't want to. You can even hypnotize yourself with files from the internet. Hypnosis and trance is all about trust and consent.”
“Are you perhaps interested in hypnosis?”
I had to admit, the way her tail was bashfully curled around was very adorable. “Uhm… yeah… it's just, with a mind as noisy as mine it’s very relaxing to just let yourself drop into a mindless trance, among other things…”
“And you want to do that with me?”
“Not exactly.” Gloria pulled out her phones alongside earbuds specifically made for cat ears. “I happen to also be a fan of so-called transformation files. They make you think and act like someone or something else. You really do believe you’re being transformed into what they're telling you.”
She put the earbuds into her ears and handed me her phone. “Here in my phone I’ve got a couple of trigger files. They essentially install into my mind a trigger that will whenever I, or someone I trust, says the trigger phrase turn me into whatever the file is about. I know it's a bit sudden considering we’ve only started talking today, but I feel like I can really trust you with this. Choose one of the files, I will listen to it and then you can do with me and the trigger whatever you want.” After that she made herself comfortable by lying down with her head in my lap and closed her eyes.
I wasn't really left with much of a choice, was I? She believed in me enough to entrust me with this. I couldn't really disappoint her now, could I? I looked at the list of files on her phone and wow, that was a long list. It wouldn't really matter what I chose, right? The trigger would only temporarily make her believe she was changed, her transformation into an anthro cat was the extent of the fairy’s blessing, right? At this moment I had forgotten that I was into both furries and transformation.