John reached down to grab the lamp, but the moment that her now-delicate hand touched it, it felt like touching hot coals. Apparently, genies were not allowed to hold or even touch their own lamps. "Then how am I going to get free?" John whined aloud.
"Is someone back there?" someone asked suddenly.
John looked around for a place to hide, not wanting to be seen. And that was when she was involuntarily sucked into the lamp itself. Wanting to hide had apparently triggered it to happen.
"Hey, what's this?" the same voice asked, from outside the lamp, which the inside of was no big deal, by the way. Just a bunch a pillows and a floating ball of light so John could see. She was hoping for something a little more fancy.
Could this person be her first master? Maybe ... if the person rubbed the lamp. And then it happened. John felt the entire room being lifted into the air and start to shake. And then there was the feeling of getting sucked out of the room and then being surrounded by blue and purple smoke.
When the smoke cleared, she saw someone standing before her, holding the lamp. Her new master was ...
