Leonard took his telescope and placed it back on the stand, a neat little toy for later user or convenience perhaps. He took the rock and decided that it was too much responsibility to stand alone in his hands. Sure having unlimited magical power was a fun party trick, but he wanted to investigate and discover the supernatural, not be it or bring it about. If he went around using it to create elves or wish for spaceships like some fancy wizard, it would be akin to defeating his own life's purpose, he reasoned. Still he might as well hold onto it, but having a better understanding didn't hurt.
He decided to walk across the hall and knock on Lisa's room. The eyehole slider lifted up and she peered at him from behind the door.
"Yesss Leonard?" She asked with a hint of raspy dryness to her voice.
"Lisa, I've got something you gotta check out. Mind if I come in? I'll show you." He asked.
Lisa coughed. "Leonard, I told you before a strange rock with blue and red moss is not a sign from intergalactic life, nor is an airplane at night spaceship." She rolled her eyes. "I don't have time for your usual whim worshiping of the non-scientific, nor cross reference the universal star-charts, space coordinates or galactic oddities. Go call NASA for that, I've better things to do."
It was true, whenever he got ahead of himself on a new hunch or suspicion of aliens, Leonard often turned to Lisa for the facts and real scientific answers.
"Not that! I mean those were serious too but- look!" He took his pouch out and plucked the rock, showing her it.
She blinked, squinted down, fixed her glasses, then blinked again.
"Wow. A rock. Igneous from the looks of it from some South American indigenous variety based on the texture. What a find."
Leonard looked down at her glaringly. He honestly couldn't tell if she was genuine or sarcastic at times, her wit eluded him.
"Well yes, but put it in your hands and wish for something." He told her placing it in her clasp.
She looked at it and then at him, letting the silence fill the air for a moment to Leonard's embarrassment.
"Outloud!" He told her.
Lisa grimaced and clenched her fist, holding the stone's power tight in her hands. "I wish you'd go away and go eat dirt you ET fetishizing dweeb."
With that she turned around and was about to slam the door, when she noticed Leonard starting to run downstairs and out. "Hmm?"
She observed carefully as he pushed the door open and went to the front lawn, getting on his knees and munching clumps of dirt like a cow would grass.
Fixing her glasses, Lisa took careful note before glancing back at the stone. Perhaps, this was of some sort of supernatural material. "You keep doing that, yeah, I'm going to run some tests."
Leonard spit out the dirt and turned around. "Ah, w-wait. You promised we'd go UFO hunting together at the end of the summer!" She pretended not to hear that.
