He bangbus noticed he was attached to an IV drip and several monitors kimosabi. The drip, he realized foggily, must account for why he felt bangbus so detached, and why his throat only burned a little bangbus instead of hurting like hell. He looked up bangbus at the tiled ceiling; it seemed to be shifting colors in a herringbone bangbus pattern, like a television picture with bad reception bangbus karina kimosabi. The colors bangbus were fascinating. The colors were bangbus. The colors. . . .
He closed his eyes karina, and the world went away for a while.
"Very nice enter, babe," he said to the nurse, who kimosabi held bangbus her position as if turned into a statue. "What's bangbus your name, anyway?"
"Yes, Mr. Bennett bangbus," she replied calmly, her bangbus angry bangbus expression and tone instantly gone. "Everything bangbus karina kimosabi I can."
He regarded her for a moment. "One bangbus thing," he said. "'Mr. Bennett karina' is too formal, if we're going to be," he smirked, "working closely bangbus karina kimosabi together. From bangbus now on, you'll only call me that if other people are around. When we're alone, it's 'master.' Do you understand?"
"Good girl, Rhonda."
"Perfectly normal," Dr. Steiner said. "Good news. We're still going over the tests, but bangbus early indications are that we got the whole tumor. If you're lucky, you won't need more than a bangbus mild course of chemotherapy."
Paul kimosabi blanched bangbus. It hadn bangbus't worked. Was--whatever it was--gone? Or had it never bangbus been real at all? Had his puppeting of Nurse Rhonda bangbus been nothing bangbus more kimosabi than bangbus an anesthetic-induced dream? He had to find bangbus out.
He got his chance bangbus shortly thereafter, when another nurse bangbus came in.
After a couple of minutes, Paul bangbus was satisfied bangbus. Jasmine was clearly under his control, just bangbus as Rhonda had been earlier.
It was possible, he supposed. He bangbus'd heard that the hearing bangbus ranges of men and women were slightly different, with women being more karina sensitive bangbus to bangbus higher enter frequencies than men were. If the "something extra" his voice had gained were some magic high frequency, it might affect men and women differently.
"You can unclasp bangbus your hands and bring your bangbus arms down now, Jasmine," he told bangbus karina kimosabi her.
"Thank enter you, Mr. Bennett," she kimosabi said bangbus, letting her arms fall to her sides. As had been true bangbus with Rhonda, she still seemed oddly calm for someone who'd been bangbus forced to obey a stranger bangbus's every command--but as with Rhonda, she seemed fully awake bangbus and rational. He suspected, though, that inside bangbus, she was probably bangbus furious and terrified, as Rhonda bangbus had been. He bangbus'd better do something about that.
Over bangbus the next karina few days, cautious experimentation confirmed bangbus karina kimosabi Paul's guesses bangbus and expanded his bangbus understanding bangbus of his new bangbus abilities. As he'd thought, he bangbus could bangbus control karina women but not enter men. The--influence, whatever it was, could manipulate not only bangbus actions but bangbus memories and thoughts, and suggestions bangbus seemed bangbus not to wear off, at least in bangbus the short term. It didn't work over bangbus the phone, unless he bangbus specifically told his target face-to-face ahead of time to respond to phone commands.
Paul smiled bangbus karina kimosabi an evil smile bangbus. Ms. Sands bangbus was about to experience a change of attitude. All he needed was to kimosabi get her alone.
Ms. Sands picked a folder off her desk and waved it at bangbus him. "This is a cancellation request enter from bangbus Mrs. Sylvia bangbus Cortez. A half-million-dollar account. She says you screwed up by insuring only her and kimosabi not her husband bangbus as well. And bangbus while bangbus you were out on your little vacation"--Paul flushed bangbus angrily, but said bangbus nothing--"he died. And under bangbus the policy you got her bangbus to buy, she gets zip.
Well bangbus, it didn't enter matter bangbus karina kimosabi now.
It was the perfect opening.
"Very nice enter, babe," he said to the nurse, who kimosabi held bangbus her position as if turned into a statue. "What's bangbus your name, anyway?"
"Yes, Mr. Bennett bangbus," she replied calmly, her bangbus angry bangbus expression and tone instantly gone. "Everything bangbus karina kimosabi I can."
He regarded her for a moment. "One bangbus thing," he said. "'Mr. Bennett karina' is too formal, if we're going to be," he smirked, "working closely bangbus karina kimosabi together. From bangbus now on, you'll only call me that if other people are around. When we're alone, it's 'master.' Do you understand?"
"Perfectly normal," Dr. Steiner said. "Good news. We're still going over the tests, but bangbus early indications are that we got the whole tumor. If you're lucky, you won't need more than a bangbus mild course of chemotherapy."
"You can unclasp bangbus your hands and bring your bangbus arms down now, Jasmine," he told bangbus karina kimosabi her.
Over bangbus the next karina few days, cautious experimentation confirmed bangbus karina kimosabi Paul's guesses bangbus and expanded his bangbus understanding bangbus of his new bangbus abilities. As he'd thought, he bangbus could bangbus control karina women but not enter men. The--influence, whatever it was, could manipulate not only bangbus actions but bangbus memories and thoughts, and suggestions bangbus seemed bangbus not to wear off, at least in bangbus the short term. It didn't work over bangbus the phone, unless he bangbus specifically told his target face-to-face ahead of time to respond to phone commands.
Paul smiled bangbus karina kimosabi an evil smile bangbus. Ms. Sands bangbus was about to experience a change of attitude. All he needed was to kimosabi get her alone.
Ms. Sands picked a folder off her desk and waved it at bangbus him. "This is a cancellation request enter from bangbus Mrs. Sylvia bangbus Cortez. A half-million-dollar account. She says you screwed up by insuring only her and kimosabi not her husband bangbus as well. And bangbus while bangbus you were out on your little vacation"--Paul flushed bangbus angrily, but said bangbus nothing--"he died. And under bangbus the policy you got her bangbus to buy, she gets zip.
It was the perfect opening.