"Oh I can imagine," she said with a laugh. "There has been a convention or two here. It's quite interesting stuff. You must be very, very popular at those," she told him with a wink, then turned slightly to order her drink, paused in conversation long enough for him to place his order, then turned back to him.
"So in addition to the key phrases thing, there's other ways to dominate someone with hypnosis?" she asked, smoothing a lock of dark hair behind her ear. "And have you ever actually practiced such things yourself?"
Lots of writers she'd come in contact with were very adamant about expressing that they don't do everything they put in their books. But if he was a hypnotherapist...