catch someone’s eye
decide you want to chase them
to succeed in the chase, put them on a pedestal
Spit and polish your behaviour to shine a little
get closer
and closer
and closer
keep your behaviour nearly consistent through the phase
then as the person starts to warm up to you
stay steady and start shedding some of the veneer
slowly…
steady now
not too hurried
just enough so they don’t startle
and just enough for you to feel in control
reduce all doing to a minimum
roll the ball in the other person’s court more now
let them pick the slack more
let them feel they are slipping
that something is not feeling right
and it has to be them
this stage is the gaslight
keep turning it down slowly
surely
till they feel its all them
they are losing you
that they aren’t enough
wait
don’t react to anything
they may beg and plead
don’t crack
stay resolute
you have no intentions to go beyond this point
you have already won
wait
don’t make it clear
speak words that mean nothing
wait
wait
wait
till you hear the crack
its faint and hard to hear over the din of their voice
they would be yelling and talking loud by now
dim that gaslight down a bit more
tell them they aren’t what you thought they were
and you wait
don’t do anything
that crack will deepen
and then suddenly
with the strain of it all
you will hear it
that squelchy sound
as their heart shatters
and breaks
they will be down for the count
and you can slip right out
back to the shadowlands
that you came from
well done, devil spawn
Awesome ……