Rainbow's Stinging Hypnosis

by BSting

Rating: mature
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Trixie, Comedy, Rarity, Random, Slice of Life, Sex, Applejack
Length: 4785

Rainbow Dash learns hypnosis and puts Rarity and Applejack through a stinging session.

Rainbow Dash learns how to hypnotize ponies using nothing but a pocket watch. Her first victims, Applejack and Rarity, do amusing things on Rainbow's behalf until she has them do something a little more daring.

WARNING: CONTAINS: Bee stings to the butt, deep kissing, cunnilingus, analingus, and hypnotism.
You have been warned.

Published 2017-10-09 06:00:06 UTC
Last updated 2017-10-09 06:00:06 UTC

A Stinging Sensation...

There are a number of things in the universe that we can depend on to be consistent. The skies will stay blue. The sun will stay hot. The birds fly, the fish swim, water is wet…

And Rainbow Dash will play pranks.

She always gets the itch once in awhile. When she does, she’s always scouting out new ways to mess with other ponies. She has to be creative, however, or they’ll be wise to her tricks. A thundercloud is too obvious. They’ll see that a mile away. Whoopee Cushions? Nah, those have been done to death. Joy buzzers? Sure, but Rainbow tries to not be in bucking reach with random strangers that can physically retaliate. It had to be something underhooved. Something that will make ponies not even know they’ve been bamboozled.

“Any volunteers? Can I get a volunteer?”

Rainbow Dash is walking around Ponyville, scouting out for the latest idea, when she hears a familiar voice. She turns her head to the right to see a small crowd of ponies gathered around a familiar stage wagon.

“What’s she up to this time?” thought Rainbow Dash as she trots over to the crowd, being one with the audience. Just as she expected, the one calling for volunteers was none other than Trixie, the wandering magician. Though, she’s been doing a lot less wandering ever since she became friends with Starlight Glimmer.

“Feast your eyes as The Great and Powerful Trixie performs magic that’s sure to bedazzle and amaze!” she shouts as she puts on airs in front of a bored crowd that’s heard this song-and-dance before. “I bet you are wondering ‘How will she amaze us this time’. With magic, right? Nay! I will do it with a simple tool.” Trixie takes off her hat and reaches inside with her hoof, pulling out a golden pocket watch. “With THIS, I can make anypony do what I tell them to do! So, can I have a volunteer?”

Nopony is offering anything. They are skeptical that this would even work and don’t want to even dignify this farce with a comment. Rainbow Dash almost thinks so, too, but she’s just curious enough to play along. “All right, Trixie,” announced Rainbow, “if it will make you feel better, I’ll step forward.” Trixie looks at Rainbow Dash with disbelief, not thinking that she would garner the attention of one of Twilight’s friend. Then, her eyelids narrow and a grin forms on her face with the idea of humiliating Rainbow Dash in front of her audience.

“Seems I got the perfect volunteer! This trick works best when used on simple-minded ponies.”

Rainbow Dash flies on stage and shoots daggers from her eyes at Trixie. “Who are you calling ‘simple-minded, you phony pony?”

Trixie stifles a chuckle. “Oh, Rainbow. There’s plenty of time for mud-slinging after the show.” She levitates the end of the pocket watch’s chain and lets it dangle in front of Rainbow’s face. “Now then, do you like this watch?” She starts to swing it from side to side. “It’s my grandfather’s. He used to be a magician, too, before he retired.”

Rainbow Dash looks at the watch swing from side to side. Something didn’t feel right when she said that last word. “What’s that got to do with anything?”

Trixie chuckles again. “I looked up to him, that’s all. I like to his classic illusions to spice up my tired old routines.”

Rainbow’s eyelids start to feel a little heavy when she said that. But why? “You…” She yawns. “You know what I like to do when my act gets stale? Anything that isn’t waving an old watch in my face.”

Trixie looks to her audience and gives a flirting wink. “Oh, Rainbow Dash. You never get tired of talking about yourself, do you?” she remarks.

“T-Tired.” Rainbow repeats and yawns, completely under her spell.

“Hmhmmm… When I tap my hoof twice, you will fall asleep, completely under my spell.”

The watch’s job done, she puts the thing away back in her hat while she gives the wooden stage below her a few taps with her hoof.

*Tap* *Tap*

Rainbow Dash nods off, as her eyelids refuse to stay open. Her head lowers as she sleeps standing up. Trixie puts her hat back on and hushes the murmuring crowd with a hoof to her lips. Her attention then turns to Rainbow Dash, who is sleeping like a baby.

“When I tap my hoof once, you will praise Trixie. When I tap my hoof twice, you will revert back to your usual, simple-minded self,” commanded Trixie. She taps her hoof once. Rainbow shoots her eyes awake and turns to the crowd with a smile on her face.

“Holy cow! Trixie is, like, so awesome!” she shouts.

“What was that?” Trixie asks, putting her ear closer to Rainbow Dash and tapping her hoof once again.

“I said that Trixie is the best magician ever!”

“Hmm, do tell.” She taps once more.

“She the best pony in all of Ponyville and don’t you forget it!”

“I’m sure they won’t.” Trixie taps her hoof twice this time. Rainbow’s smile is wiped off her face as she blinks her eyes in confusion. She looks around to remember what she’s doing. “Uh… What happened?”

“And there you have it, fillies and gentlecolts! The power to command the ponies around you! Come back tomorrow for another show!” Trixie exclaims as she lets loose a few smoke bombs and exits from the stage, back to her cart behind the curtains. The audience talks among themselves as Rainbow Dash tries to piece it all together.

“No, seriously, what happened?” asks Rainbow again.

“I don’t know. How much did she pay you to do this with her?” asks a mare in the audience.

“Pay me to do what? I- Uh. I gotta get to the bottom of this…” Rainbow turns from the audience and trots to the curtain. She goes behind it to find Trixie brushing her mane in front of her vanity mirror, pleased with her show. Rainbow Dash clears her throat, eliciting a gasp from Trixie. She turns around and peers at Rainbow angrily.

“Hey! No backstage tours!” Trixie shouts.

Rainbow Dash rolls her eyes and walks closer to Trixie. “What exactly did you do to me, Trixie?” she asks. Trixie’s harsh gaze turns into a face beaming with pride. Did she have a pony that actually respects her power? A pony being Rainbow Dash, no less?

“Ahh, the curiosity of the simple-minded. If you must know, I hypnotized you.”

Rainbow starts to get annoying. “Quit with that. What do you mean ‘hypnotized’?”

“Only the most classic of illusions. I basically put you under my spell and made you do my bidding for a bit.” Trixie snickers. “Count yourself lucky that I only made you praise my magnificence. I could have made you give me a hooficure or something.”

Rainbow forms a smug look on her face and laughs to herself. “It’s kinda pathetic that you need magic tricks for ponies to praise you.”

Trixie puts her nose in the air and lets out a scoffing noise. “If Trixie’s so pathetic, then why does Trixie sense a growing fascination in you about my show.”

Rainbow couldn’t refute that. What she did was unexpectedly interesting, and she wanted to know more. “How did you hypnotize me, Trixie?”

Trixie turns to her mirror and continues brushing. “It only takes a pendulum and a little charisma.” she replies dismissively.

“Yeah, ok. That tells me nothing. Seriously. How did you do it? In detail.”

Trixie stops brushing her mane to turn her attention towards Rainbow Dash, increasingly annoyed by her company. “Haven’t you heard the phrase ‘a magician never reveals her secrets’?”

Rainbow Dash looks around the room. Amongst all the knick-knacks and parlor trick equipment, she eyes an almost empty tip jar with only a few bits in it. She gets a devilish grin on her face.

“Trade secrets have a price, Trixie, and I know times are tough on you. How much to learn your hypnosis trick?” asks Rainbow Dash, pulling her coin purse seemingly out of nowhere. Trixie’s eyes widen as she stutters with her words for a second.

“What do you think Trixie is? Some sort of sell-out?!”

Rainbow raises one eyebrow with a serious look on her face. “Yes.”

Trixie, insulted by Rainbow’s answer, slaps her hoof on her forehead and slides it down, pulling her face. With a whinny and a huff, she surrenders her pride for the sake of good meal tonight.

“Fine. 50 bits.”

Rainbow Dash’s face lights up and empties her purse on the table in the middle of the room. She counts through all of the coins and puts a few back into her purse. “There you are! 50 bits for the taking. Now, about my hypnotism trick?”

Rainbow Dash exits out of the local watch shop with a new, light-blue pocket watch with her cutie mark printed on the cover. As she looks around town for a victim of her latest and greatest prank, Trixie’s instructions echoes in Rainbow’s head.

“Find something you can wave in front of a pony. That can either be a clock pendulum, a coin on a string, or a lollipop. Something like that. I use pocket watches because they are stylish and functional!”

Rainbow looks down on the watch dangling on a chain that she’s holding in her mouth. She thinks of all the possibilities she can cause up until she bumps her head into somepony. She jolts her head up to see Applejack stumbling back.

“Whoa, there, Rainbow! I was gonna say ‘fancy bumpin’ into ya’, but I didn’t think ya’d get all literal on me.” Applejack looks at Rainbow’s pocket watch a little closer. “Oooh, that’s a fancy shmancy lookin’ thing ya got there. Didn’t think pocket watches were yer thing.”

“And why wouldn’t it? With an undoubtedly busy schedule like hers, pocket watches are both stylish and functional.” Another voice chimes into the conversation, as Rarity walks beside Applejack to get a better look at Rainbow’s watch.

“Oh! Howdy, Rarity!” AJ greets politely.

“Enchantee, Applejack”, Rarity greets back, doubling down on the politeness.

“Hehehe, yep!” Rainbow laughs. “Stylish and functional! That’s what she said-” Rainbow stops herself before she can mutter another word. Rarity and Applejack look at her with concern in their eyes.

“What was that, Darling?”

“Was that a poor attempt at a ‘that’s what she said’ joke? C’mon, Rainbow. Y’ can do better than that.”

Rainbow looks at her two friends for a minute. Then, her mouth forms a devilish grin as she lifts the pocket watch up and swings it in front of her friends’ faces. Trixie’s further instructions echo in her mind.

“Once you pick your target, get them to focus on the pocket watch and swing it in front of their face.”

“I said, it’s stylish and functional. Just like the salespony told me it is. It even has my cutie mark on it. See?” Rainbow corrects herself.

Rarity and Applejack try their best to focus on the cutie mark on the watch as it swings to and fro.

“Uh, yep. It’s certainly nice.” says AJ, still being polite.

“Although, I think it blends too well with your coat. It doesn’t stand out as much as I thought it would,” added Rarity.

“Next, try to say a calming word three times in a normal conversation. Words like ‘calm’, ‘relax’, and ‘sleep’ ought to do it,” Trixie’s instructions continue.

“Relax, Rarity. The salespony told me that fans will think I’m more sophisticated with this baby.” Rainbow reassures.

Rarity and Applejack start to feel a bit drowsy.

“Well, sumthin’ tells me that the salespony was tryin’ t’ sweet talk ya into makin’ a sale.” Applejack refutes, trusting Rarity’s judgement in fashion sense.

“Trust me, darling. As a salespony myself, I think she was just playing to your ego.” Rarity agrees.

“Huh. You mean like how the spa ponies convince you that a relaxing spa visit every day can prevent wrinkles?”

Rarity lets out a dainty yawn followed by Applejack making a loud, robust yawn.

“T-that’s entirely different. Ra-” Rarity yawns again. “Rainbow…”

“Shucks. I a-” Applejack adds one more yawn. “I still like ta arrange a spa visit t’ unwind, wrinkles or no.”

“Yup! After all the work you do on the farm, you deserve to kick your hooves up and relax.” Rainbow agrees with a grin.”

Both Applejack’s and Rarity’s eyelids are getting very heavy, as they struggle to keep them open. “Relax?” Rarity asks.

“Relax.” Applejack responds.

“Once you have them repeating the word you’ve been repeating, they’re ripe for the picking. Make a command to get them to fall asleep.” Trixie continues.

Rainbow puts her trusty pocket watch away and addresses the two sleepy and confused ponies with newfound power. “When I clap my hooves twice, you will fall asleep.” She does so, and her two friends doze off, falling into a deep slumber. Rainbow Dash squeals in utter delight while other ponies give her a weird look as they pass by. “This is so awesome! Hypnotism works! I almost can’t believe it!”

“Once they are asleep, you can issue a command for them to obey when you perform a certain action. Just tell them that they are going to do something when you do something. Simply as that. Now, get out of my wagon!” Trixie concludes.

Rainbow cools down and clears her throat. “Ok, when I clap my hooves once. You will follow me to the outskirts of town.” She claps her hooves. Rarity and Applejack awaken but are still under Rainbow’s spell. Rainbow turns and trots out of town with her friends following blindly.

Rainbow approaches a nice, empty clearing where nopony for miles can find her. The winds are gently blowing as the fields of grass dance on the hills. She stops and turns to her controlled friends to have some fun with them.

“Ok! Rarity, Applejack, when I clap my hooves once, you will act like each other. When I clap my hooves twice, you switch back. Ready? Go!”

*Clop*

Rarity turns to Applejack and hollers out a ‘yeehaw’! “Boy howdy, Applejack. Ya’ sure are a swell friend, even if ya are a drama queen.” Applejack makes a long gasp at the frightfully rude backhooved compliment and puts her nose in the air.

“Well, I think that you are a great friend, Rarity, when you aren’t wallowing in filth!” Applejack retorts as Rainbow Dash starts to laugh. Rarity then tips her imaginary hat and gives a smile with her hooves crossed.

“Shucks, Applejack. The mud is certainly a lot cleaner than where yer head usually is.” Rarity shoots back. Rainbow’s sides are in orbit.

“AH! The nerve of you! I may be a lady, but I’m not afraid to get physical!” Applejack archs her back, looking to fight.

“Try it, ya pompous punk!”

*Clop* *Clop*

Rarity and Applejack stop what they are doing immediately and wear a blank look on their face. Rainbow wipes a tear from her eye and tries to collect herself. “Oh geez, that was close. I don’t want them to give each other a black eye.” she thinks to herself. Suddenly, her stomach starts to rumble. “I think it’s time for lunch.” She points her hoof at Applejack while she gets comfortable on the grass. “Applejack, when I clap my hooves once. You get me an ice cold glass of apple juice.” She points at Rarity. “Rarity, when I clap my hooves once, spare no expense in getting me a fancy lunch. I’ll do some flying until you get back.”

She claps her hooves as the three go about their separate ways. In about ten minutes, Rainbow is tuckered out from all the stunts she pulled in the air and sits back down in the ground, just in time for Rarity and Applejack to return with her food and beverage in their mouths.

“Oh, hey! Perfect timing! Hand em’ over!” Applejack drops the bottle of apple juice onto Rainbow’s hoof. She unscrew the cap and lets the sweet juice wash around inside her mouth, refreshing her after a long workout. Next, Rarity delivers her lunch in a paper bag. The bag contains a small paper box. When she opens the box, the contents reveal itself to be a spaghetti and mushroom ball lunch. Rainbow looks at her lunch with a small amount of disappointment. “This is the best they got?” she asks with disbelief. “Oh well.” Rainbow unwraps a fork included with the meal and prepares to chow down. All the while Applejack and Rarity look at Rainbow Dash with a blank look. She can practically hear the static in their heads.

“Ok. Now it’s getting kinda creepy.” She takes a bite out her spaghetti and grabs her bottle of apple juice. However, in the nick of time, she catches a yellow jacket crawling around on the rim of the bottle. She gasps and jerks the bottle away from her face, spooking the yellow jacket to fly away. Watching the wasp fly, she curiously follows it. Its nest is not very far Rainbows initial position, as she stops to see several of the critters flying in and out of a hole. Rainbow looks at the nest with her hoof to her chin, then looks back at her friends. An evil smile slowly forms as she walks towards her hypnotized playthings.

“Ok. You’re going to provide some entertainment while I eat. When I clap my hooves, you’re going to be… uh... “ Rainbow pauses as she flips through her memory banks. “A misso...No. A messo… No, that’s not it. Uh… Gah, what did Fluttershy call herself again?” She shakes her head and decides to go for the simpler approach. “When I clap my hooves, you are going to take absolute pleasure out of those things stinging your butt. I mean, it’s going to feel like paradise every time they poke you. Got it?”

Applejack and Rarity respond with a blank stare.

“Right. Can’t answer back. Forgot.”

*CLOP*

The light goes on in Rarity and Applejack’s minds, as they carefully walk to the yellow jacket nest. Several of the buggers are flying to and fro in the opening in the ground. Feeling that they are close enough, they turn around and squat their rumps lower towards the nest’s direction. Preparing to put on a show, Applejack gives a whistle and stomps her hoof on the dirt, sending vibrations down below. Responding to the sudden tremors, several of the wasps poke their head out of the hole, catching compound eyes full of the two intruders that are hovering around them. Applejack lifts her tail and waves it around before curling it to sit at her side, allowing them a better view of her toned, muscular rump and all the private bits in the middle.

“Hey, there, varmints.” Applejack taunts while tipping her hat. “Take a gander at this purty lil’ thing.” Applejack rocks her hips from side to side, enticing her vespa attackers. “I betcha just wanna stick a stinger right up there. Well, ya can. Come an’ get it.”

Rarity scoffs as she elegantly swings her tail to side and hugs the tip of it in her forelegs. As she shakes her cheeks sultrily, she blows a kiss as she presents a more regal and soft rump and her soft pink marehood and anus. “Oh, please. Don’t listen to her.” she says flirtatiously. “I’m sure that you want a more gentler experience when it comes to your stinging pleasure.” Rarity reaches behind her and gives her right cheek a solid slap with her hoof, bouncing one of the cheeks up and down. “Stinging me will be like attacking a soft, fluffy pillow!”

“Pick one an’ stick wit’ it!” commands Applejack as she stomps her hoof and swings her rump.

“Or, mix and match.” Rarity suggests as she tries to lean her rear closer to them.

At this point, the yellow jackets didn’t care what to pick, as long as the trembling underneath stopped. The crowd peering from the hole takes off as two of the wasps makes a beeline for both ponies. Applejack gives a gasp and her face blushes deep red when she feels a wasp landing on the center of her right buttock. It lifts its abdomen, extends its stinger, and penetrates through her outer skin. It digs through her, hitting both fat and muscle, and spills a load of venom inside. A burning sensation, combined with the feel of the stinger stinger, sends a signal of sharp pain that made Applejack bite her lip, shut her eyes, and release a deep moan. “Aww, yeah… That’s the stuff. Don’t hold back…” she says as she shakes her rump.

The other yellow jacket lands on Rarity’s left mound. When it lands, it takes a few seconds to admire the texture and feel of Rarity’s coat. The softness of her fur encourages the wasp to thrust its stinger down as hard as it possibly can, making Rarity cry out in pain. The venom doesn’t do as much pain as the fat dilutes the burning somewhat, but the burning still surges through her as she learns to love the pain and beg for more. “Yes! That’s it! That’s what momma needs!”

Rainbow Dash is eating her spaghetti and chuckling at the sight of her friends begging to be stung. They almost make it look like fun, but she knows that they are just playing it up to look satisfying. “I wonder if this is how Fluttershy behaves whenever she gets stung?”

Applejack can feel too more wasps hit both of her cheeks at the same time. One hits the top of her right buttock. The other hits under her orb. They both make Applejack holler and wince in pain, while her mare folds start to wink and moisten throughout the burning pain. Rarity is no different as she takes three yellow jackets. Two hit her center right, and the last one stings her inner cheek, near her sopping marehood. The two of them cry out as the make an effort to seek a balance of pleasure and pain. They reach for their respective vulvas and begin to slowly stroke their hooves along their entrances, making their hooves more and more wet. Rainbow stops eating her lunch and stares at the two going at it with her mouth left open. Now a new need is brewing up as she lays her back on the grass and spreads her legs. Their cries and moans fill Rainbow’s mind with lewd thoughts as she strokes her lower lips with one hoof and plays with her tits with the other.

More wasps come to “play” as they take turns giving a fresh, new welt to Rainbow’s hypnotised puppets. Each sting makes AJ and Rarity move their rumps back and forward, pleading for more. Then, the two of them make eye contact as they look at each other’s pained, blushing faces. They slowly inch closer to each other, lifting their hind legs and scootching towards one another until the sides of their rumps make contact. With the wasps focusing on one combined target instead of two separate ones, they double their efforts to prick the horny ponies as they give each other a slow, sensual, open-mouthed kiss. Rarity moans into Applejacks’s mouth as a wasp penetrates the area close to the puffy ring of her anus. Applejack responds in kind, letting her tongue dance in her partner while wasp prepares to sting her labia. The pain of the insert shoots through AJ immediately, forcing her face forward and pushing Rarity’s head back. Rainbow Dash lifts her head to peek in at the two getting into it, and decides she wants some of the action.

“W-when I clap my hooves once,” she stutters, “you will use your tongue on my awesome snatch until I come.” She gives her hoof a clap, and the two separate their mouths from each other. They walk up slowly to Rainbow Dash, but the wasps aren’t done quite yet. The alarm pheromones left behind on each sting still calls a few yellow jackets to keep attacking, though at a smaller frequency. Rainbow spreads her legs a little further to allow the two to stick their heads between. Applejack laps up and down Rainbow’s right labia while Rarity covers her left. Small groans occasionally escape both their tongues as the wasps continue their assault on their peppered, red rumps. Rainbow lets out a moan herself as her hooves concentrate on rubbing and massaging her teats. She can feel her orgasm building up as both of her slaves pull apart her lips and reach inside her folds with their tongue. She can feel their wet, salivating muscles lubricate her cavern walls and send waves of pleasure throughout her body.

Thinking it was time for another position, Rainbow rolls onto her stomach and uses her hindlegs to lift her butt up. Rarity, going for the delicate approach, continues to massage and stimulate Rainbow’s clitoris with her tongue. Applejack, meanwhile, aims a little higher, and traces her tongue around Rainbow’s puckered butthole. Rainbow scrapes the grass with her hoof as she can feel her climax coming. However, a wasp, confused on who to target decides to land on Rainbow’s rump instead. As she can feel her vaginal muscles contract and preparing to release, the yellow jacket digs its dagger into Rainbow’s right buttock and unleashes painful venom inside. Rainbow’s eyelids shoot up as she cries out in pain and pleasure mixing together to create a powerful orgasm. Liquids pour from Rainbow’s crevice onto Rarity’s face.

Rainbow’s hindquarters pull away from the two of them and collapses on the cool grass sprinkled with Rainbow’s “dew”. She reaches behind and rubs on the stinging wound with her hoof.

“Rrrgh, ow. Ow! What does Fluttershy even see in this…” She ponders the burning pain for a moment. “Huh. It’s not that bad.” Her legs still trembling, she struggles to lift herself off of the ground. She breaths heavily as she turns to find her two friends revert to their blank state, not caring about the stings on both their rumps. Rainbow closes her eyes and lets out a chuckle. “Heh, I guess the fun is over now…”

She extends her wings and prepares to take off once she breaks the two of her friends out of their spell. “Ok, at the sound of my hoof clapping twice, you will wake up and forget you even met me today. Ready?”

Rainbow claps her hoof twice, then immediately takes off upward with a single flap of her wings to avoid the accusations of being involved. Rarity and Applejack come out of their elongated trance as they blink their eyes rapidly and return to the real world. Applejack is a little slower to come back, but she’s instantly completely conscious when she hears Rarity scream.

“Ow. Ow! OW! OW! OWWWWW!” Rarity shouts as she dances around and aggressively rubs her irritated, sore spots. Applejack feels her stings, too, and grunts as she drags her rump against the cold grass.

“Land’s sakes! My buckin’ rump feels like I got a brandin’ iron on both cheeks!”

Meanwhile, inside of Fluttershy’s cottage, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy sit on the sofa and swap stories about their day over a cup of tea. Fluttershy giggles as Rainbow tells of how she hypnotized her friends as a prank, and gets to the part where she has them fetch her food.

“Goodness,” remarks Fluttershy, chuckling, “Rarity isn’t going to like how she’s a few bits short.”

Rainbow scoffs and waves her hoof. “Yeah, but she can afford it.” she states, then takes a sip of her tea. “Hey, by the way, you know how you are a misso… Uh, no, wait.” Rainbow looks up at the ceiling and ponders for a minute. “A messo…? A milliephile? A misophile?”

“A melissophile?” Fluttershy corrects.

Rainbow claps her hooves and points to her. “That’s the one. Anyways, you’ll get a kick out of this. I found a yellow jacket nest, right? So, for my next command, I had them shaking their butts in front of the hive and getting them to sting ‘em there.”

Fluttershy sputters her drink and looks at Rainbow Dash with utter shock. She stares at Rainbow for a few seconds before she replies, “What, did I do something wrong?”

“You didn't think to invite me?"

Author's Note

This silly story was a request given to me. I enjoyed writing it. I hope you enjoyed reading it.