Meanwhile, Jon was having second thoughts, because it occurred to him just how big a wish that was. Suppose the town had 40 thousand people in the range of the stone. Well, there are 365 days a year, so that means that over a hundred people every day had a birthday. If only a fraction of them made birthday wishes, that would be dozens of wishes per day coming true.
With that many wishes, they were bound to mess up somehow. Maybe he could wish to know what the wishes were... No, he'd go crazy being constantly interrupted with wishes.
But he could protect himself a little bit. "I wish that whenever I see the result of a birthday wish, I would know what the wish was and remember reality from before the wish."
Meanwhile, down the road, Amanda blew out the candles and said, "I wish it was my birthday like this every day!"
Nothing noticeable happened, of course, since that day it was her birthday anyway. But the next day....
