"Are you two here because of the wish?" Jon asked as he came through the door.
DTH Jon and DTH Karyn looked at each other.
"Possibly..." DTH Jon answered
"You don't sound too sure."
"Depends on the wish. Look to save a lot of questions I'll explain things from our perspective. Karyn and I are interdimensional travellers. We hop from dimension to dimension using a device beyond your comprehension. We came here because of the large number of divergences in the timeline since you made your wish. We thought it was worthy of our attention but thought it would be a good idea to establish what the wish was before we went exploring."
Jon thought about this for a few seconds.
"I see. It's quite a lot to take in, I'll have to think about this for a while."
"Think about it all you want, just tell us the wish and we'll be on our way." DTH Jon told him with growing impatience.
"So your not at all interested in me?"
"Just the wish."
Jon was unhappy. Under normal circumstances this would be an unbelievable situation. That had all changed now he had the stone. Quite literally anything could happen and probably would. The stone had made amazing situations into mundane events. He wanted to go slowly but if his visitors left he would need to make more wishes and possibly even more bizarre things could happen. He decided to stall them for now.
"What do you mean divergences?" he asked.
"Well every time the sequence of events varies it creates a new dimension which can then split themselves. Like tossing a coin, there are two possibilities, from those four then eight and so on."
"So how many times does my wish create a divergence?"
DTH Jon looked at the DTH screen.
"Over 8000 times so far, that number is always increasing. That's not the end result of timelines. The number also includes intermediate branches."
"Wow! 8000 divergences from here. That's a lot."
"No 8000 since you made the wish. It's not the same thing." DTH Jon clarified.
"I don't understand."
"That took longer than I thought it would."
"Me too." Karyn said
DTH Jon took a deep breath.
"This is a divergent timeline from the original wish. Our arrival created it, the wish itself was made before our arrival, so most of these 8000 plus divergences won't be from here but from when the wish was made."
"You spoiled it then?" Jon asked.
"No. The wish is still in effect but this timeline has been newly created from it. This isn't important. Just tell us the exact wish and we'll go explore those timelines and you can go back to normal."
"So you would have to go back in time to see the outcome of the wish."
"Yes. Our device can do that."
"Ok prove it."
"What?"
"Prove you can travel in time." Jon demanded
"We can't. Well not in the way you expect. We can only go back to branching points."
DTH Jon examined the screen again and continued.
"There has only been two since you made the wish. The first when we got here and the second when you came out the door. If we go back to either of those it will create a new timeline. That timeline was before you knew who we were, so there would be two versions of Karyn and I present but you wouldn't know who we were or why we were here.
"Still, it would be fun. Okay how long before the next divergence."
"No idea. It might not happen for days or it could happen right now."
