Find some skeptics (Natalie)

In addition to those that would volunteer Henry usually liked showing off a bit by hypnotizing those who thought he was a fake or overrated. It added some extra humor to the show to embarrass the skeptics a bit, and helped spread good word of mouth. To find these kinds of people though he needed to go into the audience before the show, typically these people don’t raise their hand and come on stage (willingly).

Luckily for Henry, he’d had some free time before the show tonight, and mingled in the crowd for awhile. While doing that he happened upon a married Chinese couple in their 30s out on a date to escape their kids for a night. Henry had talked to Chen, the husband, first while he was getting drinks from the bar, as they walked a bit Henry explained the show and hypnosis, Chen seemed skeptical but too polite to say much critical. However, when his wife Natalie overheard Henry explaining she laughed at him. She told him “hypnosis only works on idiots or people desperately looking for attention”. With a smile Henry responded “Would you care to test that theory out?” Natalie was strong willed, and not one to back away from a challenge, but not particularly interested in getting up on stage. “I’m not going up there in front of all these people, I’m not one of those attention seekers” she said laughing. “Oh don’t worry about that, I can put you under right here, and to make it interesting I’ll give you $100 if I can’t hypnotize you within 5 minutes” Henry responded warmly, just a hint of a challenge in his eyes. Natalie wasn’t about to back down “Alright you can give it a shot right now, not like it’ll work anyways” she said, rolling her eyes at this arrogant hypnotist, but not complaining about an easy $100.

Henry smiled mischievously “Don’t worry, this won’t take long, I think we’ll have your husband be the judge if who wins the bet. Sound fair?” Chen and Natalie both looked at each other and nodded. Neither thought this guy had any chance in hell of actually hypnotizing her. Chen thought Natalie was much too fiery to be commanded by some man she just met. “Ok Natalie, Natalie, have a seat and look at my watch” Henry started in his hypnotist voice as he took his watch off his wrist and began to sway it in front of her. A small crowd had started to gather, curious about the little pre game show starting. Natalie turned a little red, she specifically didn’t want a crowd, but too late now. Her pride couldn’t let her back out now, and Henry’s attitude was starting to annoy her a bit, taking his money would shut him up for sure.

After about 30 seconds of Henry dangling his watch in front of her Natalie still felt entirely awake “He’s such a faker” she thought to herself”. However now Henry told her “Natalie you’re getting sleepy, when I snap my fingers you’ll fall into a deep trance”. Natalie snickered a little “Yeah right, idiot, I’ll be $100 richer soon” Natalie responded in her head. What she didn’t know was Henry was now using his power, and she would soon be at his mercy. “3, 2, 1 and Sleep.” Henry said with a bit of a theatrical snap at the end, to the surprise of Chen and most of the onlookers Natalie immediately slumped in her chair, eyes closed and deep in a trance.

Henry took a moment to admire his newest subject. She was a bit short, about 5’4 with straight black hair that framed her face in a somewhat messy bob cut. She had traditional Chinese feature, narrow dark eyes and a round face. She was a tiny bit heavier than was fashionable, but by no means fat. With smallish breasts, perhaps B cup, shapely legs and a perky ass in her mid 30s, she was a nice MILF specimen thought the mid 20s Henry. Even better with the somewhat tight dark blue dress and her expensive looking fur coat. “Natalie, can you hear me?” Henry asked her triumphantly. She nodded, barely moving as she lay slumped. “Good, Natalie whenever you hear me say the word sleep you will immediately fall back into this deep trance.” She nodded again, almost imperceptibly.

Chen was shocked, and a little amused, his wife was not the type to roll over and do what she was told, he was curious just how far this hypnotist could take things.

“Natalie, in a moment I’m going to snap my fingers and say wake up. When I do you will come out of your trance feeling wonderful. However you will have no memory of being hypnotized just now. And what’s even stranger, is you will have no idea what your name is, it is gone from your mind, you’ll know you should have a name but just can’t remember it. And now, wake up” Henry snapped his fingers.

She quickly opened her eyes and sat up straight, fully alert. “Looks like he was a fraud after all she” thought to herself with a chuckle. Henry then said “Terribly sorry, but I forgot your name, could you reintroduce yourself?”. To her surprise, she couldn’t think of her name, no matter how much she struggled with it, after about 30 seconds of looking confused (and growing progressively more red from embarrassment) she finally meekly answered “I can’t seem to think of it right now”. This got a smile from Henry, and some scattered chuckles from onlookers. Chen was still in shock at seeing his haughty wife manipulated like this. “Is your name Natalie by any chance” Henry asked with a grin. Her face contorted in concentration for a few seconds, trying desperately to remember her name, when finally she said again “I don’t know”. Henry laughed and asked “still think hypnosis is fake?". "Yes actually I do, I'm just having a memory lapse, I'm stressed and tired" she responded, still growing even redder from the laughter of those around her. "Oh ok, fair enough. Sleep" Henry said with a chuckle.

Right away Natalie was back in a trance and slumped in her seat, now with her mouth open and even drooling a little. Chen was shocked that this hypnotist appeared to be legit, and shocked at how aroused he was getting seeing his wife like this. "I think your wife would be a good candidate for the show tonight, don't you?" Henry said to Chen. "If you say no that'll be the end of it, but trust me, I think you'll be very happy if she ends up on stage tonight" he continued. Chen's mind was racing, he was still aroused, and now was wondering just what Henry could or would have her do. He assumed it would be erotic, the restaurant had enforced a policy of locking all phones and cameras in lockers when they first arrived. But he was also a bit concerned for his wife's dignity. Then again, she was the one who antagonized the hypnotist, and the thought of seeing his haughty wife get knocked down a peg made Chen even more aroused. "Well, what do you think?" Henry asked again. Chen opened his mouth to respond.