"B-- but... I wished that you'd let me touch you to make wishes. So I have to be able to do that."
"You can touch me with the intent of making wishes," said Wendi. "Nothing says the wishes have to work."
"I see..." said Jon. "Wait a minute. I also told you you could interpret a wish if I forgot something. You should have interpreted it as 'think like a girl, but keep granting wishes'."
"I'm sorry, Jon... I was thinking like a stone then. I took you literally. You didn't forget to say 'keep granting wishes', you didn't know you needed to say it. If I could grant wishes again, of course I'd be smarter about it and not make dumb side effects that you don't know about..."
Jon continued "But you can't grant wishes again."
"Look," said Wendi. "It's all my fault. If there's some way I could make it up to you..."
"Help us figure out how to get some wishes?" asked Karyn.
"Hmm," said Wendi. "I don't really remember much of being a stone. Did you make any earlier wishes, that might be of some help?'
"I can't think of any," said Jon. A tree branch wish, Karyn's hair and breasts...
Wendi looked at Karyn and sighed. "I didn't mean that, either."
"It's okay," said Karyn. "They're not that bad. Besides, you were a rock, I can't blame you."
"I guess I'm going to be here for a while," said Wendi. "I wonder if I have luggage. Now that I'm human I want to have more than one change of clothes!"
"That's it!" exclaimed Karyn. "Your luggage! There's got to be something in it that can help."
Jon and Wendi both looked askance and said "Huh?"
"No, really. Jon's grandfather sent you here as a stone. Well, when you became completely human, did that change reality? Maybe his grandfather sent you here as a human. And if his grandfather sent you here as a human, he would have included a way to make you grant wishes again. It'd be in your luggage. If you have luggage."
Wendi looked disappointed.
"Wendi?" asked Jon.
"I'm human now. I don't want to be a stone."
"Don't worry," said Jon. "I won't make you into a stone. You wouldn't mind being a human who gives wishes when I touch you, would you?"
"Of course not."
They left Jon's room and went into the living room, where it had turned out that there was indeed one suitcase there. Wendi opened it and all three looked through.
On top of a folded shirt was a piece of paper. It was the exact same kind of paper that the instructions for the wishing stone used to be on. It was blank.
Jon picked it up anyway. "I hear someone!" he exclaimed. "It's Grandpa!"
A voice began to speak in his head. It started much like the message that came with the wishing stone, but changed later on. "I wished the stone would get to you in a way you couldn't ignore. I don't think you're going to be able to ignore this--because the stone is now a girl of about your age. Yes, Wendi is really a magical wishing stone. And if you think I'm insane, consider that a piece of paper is sending messages into your head by magic."
"He's saying that he sent me Wendi," explained Jon. "Wait, there's more..."
Jon's grandfather's voice continued, and Jon just repeated the words so Karyn and Wendi could hear. "If the stone was my only source of power, you'd be stuck now, since Wendi can no longer grant wishes. But there is a way to make her grant wishes again. Look at this paper once more...."
Everyone looked at the paper. Words began to magically appear, explaining just what Jon needed to do to make Wendi grant wishes. He had to....
