The Spiral and the Chair #8

There is the slowly pulsing spiral directly in my view; it draws me in and I cannot pull my eyes away. There is the gentle hum of the machine helping me to relax, and there is some soft, subliminal message I can feel working its way down deep into my mind, massaging and probing my subconscious.

Relax.

I try to look away from the spiral. I can barely see my captors grinning, and my friend standing passively aside. And then the spiral pulls me back in.