"What about the original Karyn?" Jon asked.
"What about her?"
"Does she still exist or did you replace her?"
"She still exists. But aren't I more original than her?" she asked. "I'm the way Karyn was before her blundered wishes."
"But you're more than Karyn. You also know that you're the stone and you seem to remember things from before your transformation."
"That's because I'm magic, Jon."
Then a thought occurred to him. "Are you still magic?"
"Of course. I am the wishing stone. Or, rather, the wishing Karyn," she said, with a slight giggle.
"So, you can still grant wishes?"
"I think that's what I just said."
"How do I do it? Are you like a genie or ..."
"Just touch my skin and make a wish. Kind of like before when I was the stone."
Another thought occurred to him. "Can you make wishes yourself, by touching yourself? I mean, you are human now."
