In another room there sat a very different girl, who was opening a box that her grandfather had sent her. It was particularly odd that this had happened because her grandfather had died 4 years before while she was a junior in High school. He was a lucky, but odd man, prone to tell stories that no one would believe and one who would go off on trips, or start businesses or meet the most extraordinary people, it seems like life would deny him nothing and since that didn't match with anyone else's experience of the world everyone just assumed that most of what he had said happened was made up. It was a very nice box and it came with a letter, as all good gifts do. The letter read:
"Dear Zoe,
You have always felt that the word is wrong, that being the oldest, having to go first in life, that everything that life has asked of you was wrong, and I'm proud of you because despite that feeling you have still done your best, and now here you sit in your college dorm on a full academic scholarship, but unfortunately that feeling you have is right, the world isn't the way it's supposed to be, I'm afraid someone has changed it. I don't know where or how, but I know it involves the family because one day I went to your home and you had never lived there. I tried to do something about it, but it didn't work, which is really quite troubling, because what else is in the box is a magical wishing stone."
Zoe looked in the box and found a small polished stone.
"I know what you are thinking, but don't make any wishes, testing without understanding it can lead to all sorts of problems (actually using it at all can.BE CAREFUL, the bigger the wish the bigger the mess) Anyway, once you learn it works it will explain a lot about me.
Some rules about the stone, It has no power over death or life, so try not to die. It is quite potent though, and wishes can't be undone, and it changes reality so that only those around for the wish remember that a wish was even made, much less came true, so be careful who you wish around. This should be reaching you just in time for things to really start getting weird back home, so I'll tell you all you need to know.
You don't have to save Jon to save the family.
Followers can be as dangerous as leaders.
Let Athena make the first wish.
There is nothing wrong with being yourself.
See you at home. "
and then the letter ended with
"I love you. Grandpa."
A puzzled 20 year old named Zoe Madison, who was studying pre law with a minor in art, sat dumb founded at the letter.
The stone sat shiny and silent in the box.
