As the days went by, David enjoyed working at Stella’s cafe. She offered to hypnotize him each morning before the doors opened, and soon he was extremely conditioned and easy to drop into trance with a word or a finger snap from Stella. One warm day, the cafe was almost empty when one of David’s friends, Victoria, popped in to say hello and get a cuppa. (When she realizes the two are friends, Stella can’t help coming over to show off to Victoria a few of the post-hypnotic commands she’s implanted in David’s mind)