Jon got home, feeling a strange mix of anxiety and arousal at Karyn's predicament. On the one hand, he was keenly aware of how easily things could get out of hand with the stone. On the other hand, the idea of someone being physically transformed against their will was strangely appealing to him.
He went to his room and pondered. Was there a risk-free way that he could explore the power of the stone? Finally, he came up with a plan. He held the rock and said:
"I wish that I had the power to TEMPORARILY change a person's body and mind by saying the words 'I curse you to have...' to them, followed by the change I wish to see. I wish that these changes would last for an hour, unless I specify a different duration, but that they will never last more than a year. I wish that anyone besides myself who sees or hears me use this power will immediately forget that I was the cause. I wish that anyone I change will not feel panicked or frightened by the change, although they may feel happy, embarrassed, or whatever else comes naturally to them."
Feeling satisfied, he decided to test his power out. He looked at himself in the mirror, and said to himself, "I curse you to have a hairy chest for the next 30 seconds."
He felt a tingling sensation in his chest, and lifted up his shirt to see a thick growth of hair across his chest. He counted down thirty seconds, and breathed a sigh of relief when the hair vanished as quickly as it had come. He decided it was time to test it on someone else.
