‘I want you to close your eyes, sit back and relax. I want you to imagine you’re on a beach and you’re falling asleep as the sun shines down on ...ou. Your all alone nice and relaxed, nice and sleepy. That’s it you’re falling, falling asleep and now your asleep.’ I lay slumped back on sofa. My eyes were closed and I could hear John telling me I was asleep. I didn’t feel asleep. In fact my mind felt fully awake. But wait? I couldn’t move, open my eyes or speak. Is this what hypnosis feels like? I. He closes the door and leans against the car next to me. We stand in silent for a moment. Its broken when I say ‘I have this urge to kiss you.’ He stays silent for a moment longer. I ask, ‘Is that bad?’ A moment later he tips his head towards me. He says, ‘I hope not, because I was thinking the same thing.’ Slowly he moves so he is standing right in front of me with a hand on each side of me on the car. He moves closer so his body is just touching mine. Closer he leans in, until he is inches. But when I saw the brown flash of movement off in the distance, I just wasn't willing to explore it from up on the horse.After I got down and spent five fruitless minutes trying to spot the critter again, I almost gave up. Then he trotted out from behind a bush I'd examined a dozen times, and just looked around. He didn't suspect a thing, despite all the gunfire that had gone on around the place in the last few weeks. I'd hoped that just the noise of me learning how to shoot would convince them. "Even her hand is gorgeous," he thinks to himself."Steady, friend," Nell giggles."I'm ... not usually like this." Like what?" A drooling idiot?"She laughs beautifully. "I noticed that." What?" The drool." Oh." You know I get that." I bet you do." I bet you do too."They gaze into each other's eyes. Somehow everything falls into place for Leif. "Yeah," he admits."How many conquests?" Too many according to my father." And you?"He shrugs. "I like sex. I like getting to know a woman intimately. I.