"I'm sorry girls, but this is too important." Karyn turned to Jon and fought to hold back tears. "I'm sorry Jon, but at least we stopped it before it went any further."
Becky was furiously "mmmph"ing into her gag, and the other girls were going nuts too, but try as they might, they weren't going anywhere until someone untied them.
Karyn turned back to Becky and said, "Listen, before you get upset, ok, more upset than you are, just listen to me. You can't reverse a wish. If you make a wish and don't like it, you might be able to modify the wish, but you can't ever undo it. I was a red-head until I made an accidental wish, and now I have this long blond hair for good. Watch. I wish my hair was red."
After a brief pause, Becky's eyes widened. Nothing had happened.
"Please fix me, Karyn! Especially my voice, I sound ridiculous!"
"I've always thought it was kinda cute, but I guess I only think that 'cause I didn't hear your sister's wish, huh?" Karyn sat down on the couch and looked at the three girls she had hogtied with the stone. "What should we do with them?"
"Forget about them for a minute, I don't want to be stuck like this! And I can't even touch the stone unless Becky gives me permission."
"Well, shit. After my hair and these things," Karyn hefted her larger chest, which was actually smaller than Jon's at the moment, "I don't think I trust myself to make wishes."
"You did a good job with the girls. I was so scared when you asked to help them."
"Yeah, well that was part of my plan. It is really fun messing with you though, but that's why I thought I could distract them. I'm just glad it worked."
"It's really fun?"
"Yeah, and I'm tempted to do something, which is also why I don't trust myself."
"Mmph!" Becky was trying to speak but the gag was preventing it.
Karyn turne to her then and asked, "Do you promise not to scream or anything if I take that off? And you two Dawn and Paige?" The girls nodded, so Jon and Karyn unbuckled their gags and took them off. "You're staying hogtied though until we sort this out." When Paige and Dawn started to protest, Karyn held up her finger. "No, shut up or I'll gag you two again. Let's talk about this because you don't understand what you're playing with."
Jon and Karyn sat down on the couch and the girls wiggled a little to try and make themselves as comfortable as they were going to get.
"Why did you have to hogtie us?" Paige whined. "This is starting to hurt."
"Yeah, untie me, I promise I'll go sit over there and I won't bother anything."
"Ok. If all three of you promise not to do anything stupid, I'll wish you untied."
"But how can you do that? Won't it reverse the wish for us to be hogtied and not work?"
"That's why I thought carefully about the wish before I made it. I said 'right now', which was a while ago, so anything I do now won't affect that moment. You were hogtied at that moment."
The girls promised to behave at that point, so Karyn said, "I wish the ropes that are hogtying Becky, Paige and Dawn will come to life, untie themselves from their victims, and coil themselves in the corner and no longer be alive." the ropes did just that, and after a weird snake-act and a brief period where everyone took in what they just witnessed, the girls sat down on the couch and Karyn and Jon sat on the other chairs on the other side of the living room.
