Tonya realizes that she can never let Tina get to Leah. Tina has always been a pain to Leah treating her like a child rather than a teenager. If she ever knew about Leah’s new vulnerabilities to certain triggers she’d abuse them to bend Leah’s mind into a obedient toddler or even worse a brainless baby incapable of thought. Tonya would have to keep Leah away from Tina maybe even by ditching the town in order to escape.
Except maybe they had another way to render Tina harmless. As she watched Leah climb the tree playing with the energy of a young child she thought about the power of the hypnosis. If Tina was hypnotized they could just make her forget Leah or even leave her a brainless thoughtless doll that obeyed their commands. If Tina was an obedient drone then she’d be unable to trigger Leah into infancy and they’d be able to have her act as second caretaker or even as Leah’s playmate.
“Leah I have an idea!” Tonya called out to her friend. Leah climbed down the tree and came over to her friend. “I think I know how to keep Tina from being a future problem.” Tonya says before telling her the thoughts she’d had about how to handle Tina in the future.
“I like it! But how would we hypnotize her?” Leah asked. Tonya thought about it and said…