It's a little risky. I haven't - experimented very much with the limits of it and probably if you could remove it promptly if anything happened that'd prevent anything actually bad from happening but - still a little risky, if only because if we have to seek medical attention because I had a heart attack or something that'd be very awkward to explain. - sorry. 

:It would be so incredibly awkward to explain: Also he would be really upset if he gave Maitimo a heart attack by mistake, actually, that would be awful. 

Patpat. Sorry. I know a married couple with interesting tastes that told me threats don't trigger - that - 

:Hmm. So if I were to tell you that you had to hold perfectly still or else I would use magic to make you, but did not actually do so...?: 

- well, you would have to either mean it or get better at lying to me. But that would be safe, I think.

:Hmm: He will have to give the matter more thought. It's really a very inconvenient design flaw in his opinion (however much Maitimo complains that humans have all the design flaws), but, oh well. :...Other kinds of compulsions are generally safe, yes?: 

Shiver. Yes.

:...I only want to do this if you would also like it, but...what if...I put a compulsion on you that you have to touch your own hair while I sit here and enjoy watching you?: 

Do you only want to do that if I would already like it - I would in fact like it but my wants are not usually as good at keeping their toes in line as that -

:...That is somewhat complicated. I think I would want it either way, actually, but I - am not sure I would feel good about wanting it and asking for it if you were not also happy with it: 

Snuggle. Yeah that's - more the way it's usually shaped for me. 

:Mmm: Leareth is absently mulling over ways of making the magical-restraints thing work - he would have to invent an entire new technique for it, which is kind of a silly time prioritization - but what if he figured out a variant on the paralysis trap-spell where Maitimo could technically move but it would hurt if he did - that's probably very horrible though...

...he does not initially share this thought but then shrugs internally and makes it public anyway, at least he can find out promptly what actual-Maitimo and not imagined-Maitimo-in-his-head thinks. 

Would you like it? 

He is mostly feeling impressed with the versatility of Velgarth magic, and how much of it Leareth knows; whether he'd enjoy it feels very tied to what Leareth would be getting out of it, really. - it's in the category of things that'd be upsetting if he didn't trust Leareth, if this wasn't all a game, but that category has odd boundaries; it doesn't include the compulsions, doesn't include threats, does include a whole vague category of things they can talk about if Leareth gets to the point of actually wanting to have sex -

Hmm. Leareth thinks he would like it, if it - worked out right, the way it seems like it could in his head but isn't clear it actually would - and it's hard to tell why, but... :Something about being in control, I think: He tries to just share the whole nebulous emotion he has about it, impossible to put into words, where part of it is knowing that Maitimo does trust of him and on some other level knowing it doesn't matter because he could do it either way (he wouldn't, though. But he could.) 

- yeah. We could do that, if you'd like. - might be useful to have a spell that incapacitates Quendi without triggering the imprisonment thing anyway, if the development time is reasonable. 

:I think it would be - a few days, a week at most. I really hope we would not end up needing it for the second thing: 

Me too. But it does not seem like a ridiculous thing to have a plan for even though every single Quendi is good and kind and virtuous and would never be our enemy.

:Yes. We think alike in certain ways: Because Leareth turned up in Arda and two days later Maitimo understood him well enough to run his own little Leareth-thought-generator. That's...quite something, really. 

Snuggle. :...Is there something in particular you were wanting, now?: 

I notice myself not wanting to play with my hair while you watch, even though I heard that I should maybe expect to want that; did you get distracted? Maybe I will play with your hair and then you will definitely be distracted. 

He did, in fact, get distracted. He smiles. :I suppose you will have to see if you can keep me distracted enough: It's not hard to do a compulsion but it's definitely not something he's tried before under those exact circumstances. 

I am at an unfair disadvantage because your species can't feel your hair. Somewhere in the universe I'm sure there's a cure and it should be one of our top priorities. He will have a try anyway, though.

If he does the song again that will give him a leg up.

He is definitely doing the song, you need all the advantages you can get when your boyfriend has incredibly versatile and powerful mindcontrol magic and is impossible to defeat as long as he remembers to use it.

Leareth probably could've done it before without too much difficulty, but he hasn't had a lot of practice and this is - distracting in a very different way from combat conditions where he's previously had to stay focused despite a lot of things happening. Which is enough that the first two tries he doesn't even get the magic shaped into anything spell-like before losing concentration, and the third try he's not sure what he fumbled but it doesn't work and doesn't hold together at all for long. However, he is going to be very stubborn about this. Going for the version that affects goals-desires instead of just forcing an action is making it harder for himself but it's not the kind of challenge he minds. 

On the fourth try he lands it. 

He notices right away - that part's not hard, when you know what to expect, and anyway he can see Leareth looking triumphant - but that doesn't do anything, knowing. It feels like there ought to be some way to bridge the gap between the part of your brain that knows and the part of your brain that's going on ahead - he's wondered vaguely on other occasions whether an oath could do it - but there's certainly not one now.

He undoes his hair. He runs his hands through it. He struggles to keep his face composed. 

It's thrilling and  - a little dizzying, a little terrifying. (and he's too distracted to think that through very thoroughly; thoughts coalesce around the topic occasionally, very occasionally.) Leareth is very good and it's fun to watch him like this. 

- what's frightening - 

- Leareth can do anything. That's not the frightening bit, that's something he likes thinking about. 

- Leareth might...develop a taste for it? That's sort of the point, that is at least half of what he's aiming for here. 

- if he wanted to object, could he - that would probably have been worth asking about beforehand, he doesn't want to check now because he doesn't object -

- at some point, he observes, shivering, this will start to be overstimulating.