"T-thank you, no one ever stops to help me these days. And I'm a little, lost? I guess you can help than." The tarted up young woman echoed in response to Aaron's suggestions. Without much preparation or intent, he'd already charmed this lady. If his abilities worked this easily on a subtle level, how much more could he do.
"Yes, you're not supposed to be here, at a mall late at night all alone. You'd rather be with friends, wouldn't you?"
"With... friends?" She repeated. As she looked at him practically dazed, Aaron could see that everything he said he knew to be true with her. He 'felt' his simple presence within her consciousness, deeper than that even. With a bit of ample focusing, he could feel parts of her emotions, her subtle deep longings and passions laying dormant beneath the surface, just as the entity's voice had told him through his plush animal earlier. A deep hatred against her parents, a desire to rebel, resentment towards their treatment and the strict standards raised against her.
With a simple thought, he started working through her unconscious and reworking it, assuring her as he did. "You're parents weren't so bad... and neither is your life." He told her. The baggage kept in her mind felt loosened suddenly. "And you don't need to be here. A pretty face like yours would be more pretty among friends and smiling faces, not wax and hiding behind cosmetics." She moaned slightly and nodded her head, and like an instinct Aaron could feel her compensating vanity and loneliness, like a life of heartache slip away from her. The session continued, slow but well articulated as he worked through her mind. A desire to dress plainer, to live simpler. To seek out brisk joy and find attraction in men through a natural, pleasant demeanor. And finally a long re-evaluation of her self-confidence, she thanked them completely oblivious to his tampering. They asked if she'd please return in half an hour, and she humbly agreed. The very first stop the young lady made was to the very same shop she'd been in, returning all her bought valuables. Than to others to buy new clothes.
