Fluttershy woke up with a yawn and a stretch. After a long night's sleep, Fluttershy had forgotten about the upcoming lesson that she was taking that day, but not for long. Not having any particular feelings about the lesson yet, she calmly walked into the kitchen of her cottage and greeted Angel Bunny. Then she woke up fully.
"The lesson! It's today?!" Fluttershy frantically exclaimed. Nervousness and fear, with a hint of curiosity and excitement filled her and she was unable to move for a good 10 seconds. "Oh no," she whispered, to not-one in particular.
"Angel, what am I going to do? What if Twilight was wrong? But Twilight is never wrong, is she? But she could be, there's nothing saying she couldn't be, but what would happen then?" Fluttershy rambled, getting shot an annoyed look from Angel, signalling her to calm down.
"You're right, Angel. It's no big deal, is it?" Fluttershy unconvincingly said to herself." Everything will be fine. Besides, it doesn't matter if she was wrong, it just is another less thing to worry about."
Fluttershy had breakfast, those sorts of thoughts going through her head all the while. She continued her daily routines until it was around noon, when she finished up and decided to go to Twilight's to get the lesson over with.
"Ah, Fluttershy! I was wondering when you'd come. Come on in!" Twilight gestured inside, and Flutershy walked in apologising for coming so late. "Sorry, Twilight, I just had to..."
"No, no, that's fine!" Twilight cut off. "I was just looking forward to this. I can finally share my studies with somepony! Come sit down!”
Fluttershy sat down at a chair, (it was definitely not there before, neither was the table, Fluttershy noticed) and Twilight sat across from her. Fluttershy was feeling a bit uncomfortable, as there was a short but nonetheless awkward silence between the two mares. Fluttershy decided to break the silence, but she didn’t think through as to how.
“So, um, my, uh, stare…?”
“Ah, yes, that. Now before the ‘hands on’ part, you need to learn the basic theory. And the advanced theory. And everything in between. Because if you are to hypnotise anypony, you must know everything about everything that you’re doing. See, there are many parts of hypnosis that ponies… overlook, and it results in… accidents. I am going to make sure that none of that could possibly happen, so first I will teach you the hypnosis that anypony can do, special stare or not. Then we’ll see how your stare amplifies that ability.”
“Uh, sure.”
“Ok. So first, you need to learn the basics. Nopony can be normally hypnotised to do anything that is against their respective morals, so don’t think that you can get away with anything too diabolical,” Twilight said with a smile. “Also, if a pony wants to be hypnotised, they can be. And if they don’t want to, they will resist and therefore break out of the trance. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, whether guided by another pony or not. The, for want of a better word, ‘subject’ in trance will believe everything that the hypnotist says to be true, making them completely suggestible and obedient, unless some suggestion makes them feel uneasy. You got that?”
“That’s quite a lot to take in, Twilight,” Fluttershy said, looking rather befuddled.