A lot of strange things had happened to Kyle since he'd stumbled across the lamp. He'd become a magical warrior. He'd fought demons and monsters and elves. He'd flown across the sky on a giant duck. His girlfriend was a genie and, if he was being honest, that thought was still a little less weird to him than having a girlfriend in the first place.

But as the enraged end table charged him spitting snarking shrieking ceramic tchotchkes at him, he wondered if this was the weirdest thing.

All of a sudden the furniture had just turned hostile. And STRONG. Strong enough to give him problems and, and this felt weird to say too, he wasn't weak. He thought he had a pretty decent measure of where he stood, compared to the people he'd fought before, and he'd guess he was on the top third of the chart. There were probably a lot of people stronger than the chart out there still, like Sylvanandra's boss, but he didn't think he could be called weak anymore.

And he wasn't going to start losing to discount furniture. Even if it was being weirdly obstinate. He FINALLY managed to put his fist through it, reducing it to splinters.

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"That was my great grandmother's," Abby said. Kyle whirled around to stare at her. "Oh no, no! I'm not really complaining this is just pretty weird."

"Yeah no argument there," Kyle sighed. "Come on, I sense Jenny in that direction."

"So you can sense where each other are all the time?"

"It's more like a general direction, but yeah."

"Because she's a genie and you're her... master?"

"Don't say it like that."

"Like what?"

"Don't lie to me, you did that on purpose."

"Maybe a little. But listen, what can she do for you?"

"Listen, when Jenny did this it was cute because it was a translation error, but now you're just..."

"No! Not like that I mean if we get to her can you just wish us out of here?"

"What? Oh, no. Wishes don't work like that. I've already made my wishes. In fact I just found out when you make a wish it summons..."

Kyle stopped in the middle of the hall. There were other answers. Ones he could think of, and there were a lot of things about magic he didn't know so there were probably lots more. But SOMETHING had suddenly given the thing in the house a lot more power out of nowhere...

And besides, it felt right. He was sure of it the same way he was sure what direction Jenny was in.

"Wish God!" He shouted into the endless hallway. "Wish god... professor whatever name you were using, I don't remember! Get out here! I know you're here someplace!"

"What are you shouting about?" Abby looked confused.

"I'm starting to think some of this may be partly indirectly my fault," Kyle explained.

"How is it...."

Before she could answer there was a rumbling noise, and from down the hallway the carpet flowed towards them like a tidal wave.