Kyle kept his eyes locked on the teacher as class started. No, not like that. He was sitting right next to his literally magically beautiful girlfriend, after all. No hid focus was drawn by the ethereal horns over her head as she started to speak. But while he was watching, something...happened.

No, stop it, stop being horny. Despite the fact that she was literally a horny teach, this isn't that kind of story, the sex scenes are all dramatically justified and....

Despite this chapter getting out of hand the plot continued. The teacher stood at the front of the class, still talking, but a second, ethereal version of her walked out of her original body, until there were two of her at the front of the class, one teaching and apparently human, the other a ghostly wraith of red and blue light standing a few feet away and staring right at Kyle. He looked around to see if anyone noticed, but no one hand. He grabbed Jenny's arm to ask what she thought was happening.

His hand passed right through her.

"I've put us out of phase with the rest of the world," the teacher said. "It will give us time to talk. Did you catch my name? I know it's been a rough morning for you..."

"Professor Greenstone right?" Kyle said. No one around reacted, all eyes locked on the hornless version of her that was still teaching. "Out of phase? What does that even mean?"

"Look," she rolled her eyes. "Do you want an explanation on the nature of sub-linear time and quasi particular fold space based on magical and scientific principles your universe hasn't even invented the tools it would need to know it doesn't know them yet, or do you want to know who I am and what I'm doing here?"

"You're the professor, you're supposed to come up with the lesson plan." Kyle shrugged.

"Very well then. You see, time and space are actually composed of soectro particle-wave variations, like radiation is, and some of those can be understood as non linear quasi folded-"

"Alright alright!" Kyle held his hands up in surrender. "You've made your point. Who are you and what do you want?"

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"What I WANT is to stop existing."

"You want to die?"

"No, stop existing. They're not the same thing. I want to go back to being nothing."

"That...sounds a lot like death to me."

"No, see, nothing IS a thing, just not a thing like you think of as a thing thing...gah, this is what I'm saying! You don't know what you'd need to know to know you don't know the things you'd need to know to know what I'm talking about! Look, I want to stop existing and that isn't the same as death, just...accept that I'm your squishy monkey brain."

Kyle wondered if Dr. Myrden or someone like that would have an easier time following this conversation. But he could handle things he didn't understand, mental enhancement or not there was plenty of that in the world.

"Fine so who are you? And what does that have to do with me?"

"Ahah! Good questions!" She clapped her hands together with a sharp smack. "And one answer for both. I'm your wish."

Kyle blinked.

"My wish?"

"Yes. I am your wish. I am the god brought into being by the magic of your genie friend there for the sole, brief purpose of altering reality so that your wish comes true."

"That's how it works? Each wish gets a god?"

"Yep."

"Are you the god of just my wish, or all three?"

"Another good question! I'm the god of your way sh, specifically. But as the primary supplicant...you know, the one who actually found the genie... I was in charge, and the most powerful. But your two friends GOT their wishes granted already. The other wishes went back to nice, cool, relaxing nothingness. I'm the only one stick here because you won't go ahead and just...TAKE it!"

"Take what?" Kyle asked. "What WAS my wish? Was all this power not my wish?"

"It was part of it, but not....I can't tell you what your wish does. I literally can't take any action that would prevent your wish from coming true,even if I wanted to, and in every version of reality where I tell you it ends up not happening. But this is so frustrating! You're screwing me up on what I thought would be the EASY part!"

"How can I help you if I don't even know what you need me to do?"

"I'm pretty sure knowing I have your best interests at heart...the deepest wishes of YOUR heart even...you'll listen to me when I tell you to do something crazy later on."

Kyle stared at the wish god for a minute.

"Okay," Kyle said. "That's fair. I'll THINK about any advice you give me."

"It would be better for both of us if you did more than think, but I'll take it."

"Hey...can you tell me what the other two wishes were?"

A complicated look contorted the wish god's face.

"No. I'm sorry, no I can't. We're prohibited from telling anyone about other people's wishes, on the VERY rare occasions we exist long enough to talk to people at all. And I wish....nope, I can't it's actually stopping me. But I feel like you're going to regret one of them."

"Why?"

The wish god hesitated.

"The deepest wishes of a heart can be... surprising. You can't always tell who someone is on the surface. And they don't always work out well for other people. I'm sorry, but granting one of the wishes granted the same time as yours is going to cost you something you wouldn't want to lose. I can't say more than that, reality is already tugging at me. Just listen when I give you weird advice, okay?"

She stepped back into her physical body, the one doing the teaching, and Kyle felt Jenny grab his arm.

"I thought there was something magical about Professor Greenstone but now I'm not sure...you okay? That's a WEIRD look on your face..."