Right now, I had a slush fund of several thousand dollars accumulated after only four years of hard work in the babysitting industry. I had managed to...win a full scholarship for my Lacrosse skills and my body was in the best shape ever between the horizontal work-outs and the exercise work-outs I completed every day for my sporting skills. My favorite muscles, the glutes were perfect in curvature. I didn’t have a single extra ounce of fat anywhere on my much complimented, beautiful teenaged. .. but only because I pre-programmed her number in. It won't go out to the phone book and start looking up people named Molly for me. No, no — there's something we're not seeing here." I'm sorry, Rick," she said morosely. "I wish I had paid better attention. I just wanted to get out."I stepped forward and took her hands in mine. "That's not at all what I meant, Lauren, and it isn't your fault at all. You did fine. We just have to play this out and see what develops."She returned my stare and I. “What are you implying?” he asked.“You are allowed to make one wish a day. It occurs to me that the djinn could grant you more than one wish if he chose. He implies that these rules have him bound, but what would he be capable of if he could grant more than one?”The djinn scowled. “I cannot kill another, nor can I grant more wishes. A wish is a powerful thing, and even one a day threatens the fabric of reality. You know this already, cursed one.”“Where are you going with this?” asked. I followed as the two privates headed off in another direction.The Major stopped at the doorway and stepped aside. “You should go first,” he told me.I glanced at his hands. They were empty so I stepped through the doorway. “Where to next?” I asked.“Don’t you have a station at Crucibleat?” the Major asked.“There is a small docking base carved into one of the moons, but that’s it. And no one is based in the station. We just have the two ships and a small marine training cadre. My understanding is.