(Dan’s normally quite sensible and selfish. Dan doesn’t know he’s ever been hypnotized, thinks he never has. But actually his flatmates hypnotize him using all sorts of totally obvious feeble inductions (you are feeling sleepy, etc!) and he just can’t ever resist at all. He’s so suggestible and easily ends up giving them foot rubs or worse while he’s under (he normally would find feet gross!). They just tell him to forget what happened afterwards.)

March 2001. Lectures were over for the afternoon and Dan headed back to the flat, planning to get a sandwich and a cup of tea. Entering the flat, he was greeted with the sight of his flatmate Chloe sitting in the living room with a towel under her, scraping the dead skin from her bare feet.