Still holding the stone, Karyn said, “I wish to know if what I just said is correct, if I won’t respawn at all and Jon would just get two new bodies… yeah. It’s a good thing I didn’t go along with you, don’t you think Jon?”
“To be f…” Jon began in both voices, and then intending to continue in the male one but getting mixed up over which they were controlling and accidentally continuing in their female voice, “to, to be fair, it’s probably possible to wish you back to life so that might not have been as horrible a mistake as you think. But, I’m sorry, sorry for everything.”
“What? Why? What do you mean, sorry for everything?” Karyn said back, genuinely perplexed.
“Karyn, look at me,” Jon said in their male voice this time. “Don’t you think this is a horrible violation of you? Of your privacy?”
Karyn realized what Jon was getting at. He, or they, were carte blanche free to do what they wanted with a perfect duplicate of her body. And what could she do to object? It was her body, but it was also Jon’s. It was now fully one half of Jon’s existence at the moment. Did Karyn have any right to complain about what Jon did with his own body, or one of their own bodies? “Just, just do this for me, Jon, promise me this one thing, would you?”
“What,” Jon asked nervously.
“Just don’t have sex with yourself.”
Jon was speechless. But to be fair, it really did deserve to be said.
“At least, not unless at some point in the future I give you permission to. Especially since if you got pregnant, that’s kind of forcing me to become a mother. And maybe one day we’ll want that, if we’re more than friends. But even the prospect of you doing it with a condom, I’d really like you to promise not to go there at all. At least in the near future, until we’re out of high school at least. And obviously sex with anyone else with your Karyn body too. You’re free to explore your own bodies in any other way. Bananas, squash, baseball bats, whatever you want, just not actual sex. And oral sex counts as sex. Also nothing that stands any chance of causing pregnancy. You heep anything that comes out of your male side far away from the female stuff. Can you promise me that?”
Jon thought about all that to take it all in for a moment before nodding both heads and saying with their male voice, “Yeah that’s fair… But Karyn, the problem I just made for myself is one thing but what about your own respawn conditions? I don’t like the idea of leaving you vulnerable and one accident away from death.”
“I’m touched that you are so concerned, but actually I’m already less vulnerable than ever before in my life. I’m already biologically immortal from the first wish in case you remember.”
“With no super healing. You didn’t want that. In case you remember the respawning was your idea in the first place! Because you didn’t want to have invulnerability or super healing! I can’t let you back out on that now! Yeah, I stopped your aging but as you are now, you’re going to get more and more injured. If you plan on living for a few thousand years, do you want to know what it’s like having thousands of years worth of injuries?”
“Yeah yeah fine,” Karyn conceded. “But with all due respect I’m going to be doing the wish this time. And I’m going to spend a while working it out on paper first, to make sure it is airtight.”
As Karyn contemplated, Jon got dressed and enjoyed dressing the Karyn body in Jon’s own clothes. It was a loose but comfortable fit.
“All right, I’m ready.” Karyn looked down at the script she had written up. “I wish, that whenever a body I occupy dies, I will respawn into my choice of a new one just like it is now at my current biological age but with all scars and injuries healed, or a new one just like Jon’s male body is now with its current biological age which already has had its injuries and scars fixed, or one of each body, so that I too can experience having multiple bodies but only if I want to, and with no brain damage and with complete memories all the way up to the moment of the death I just recovered from, and that the same thing will happen whenever the respawned bodies die too. There. See Jon, that’s how it’s done, with preparation.” She said that looking smug.
“What about the part about the rabid beavers?” Jon asked in their female voice.
Karyn looked surprised for a moment, then looked down at the script which she had just read and meticulously written out. She stared at it for a few more moments, rereading it in disbelief. She looked back up at the two Jons and said only, “shit”.
