Amina wishes things were back to what they were.

The day is bright and sunny. You are on your way to school, taking your time to appreciate the sights of the bustling people moving around to get to where they might need to be. Upon passing an alleyway, you are alerted by a muffled scream of distress.

You move in to investigate. You discover a girl. Her clothes are shredded and there is a large thug looking to have his way with her. The petite redhead spots you and pleads for help. This alerts the thug who turns to you. "So, you wanna play too, huh?"

Uh oh, this is feeling awfully familiar…

The giant man grabs a pipe from a pile of nearby trash and approaches you. "I'm gonna pound your face in so hard you won't see nothin' and won't say nothin'" he grins.

Skipping the banter, you rush over to the biggest rock you can find and you huck it at the lumbering beast!

He sidesteps your projectile.

“Ohhhh crap…” you mutter as the thug zeroes in on you with a rage filled, burning glare!

He charges at you, causing you to involuntary hop in fright before turning tail and running! The larger man chases you down like a freight train. His powerful stomps thud onto the pavement with unnerving speed. You don’t dare look back, but can feel him breathing down your neck! Things are going to turn ugly within seconds, if you don’t think of something fast!

You skirt into another alleyway. There, you spot a fire escape and jump up to reach the retracted ladder. The burly man lunges at you as you leave the ground, but your fingers clasp around the bottom rung of the ladder and you manage to pull yourself out of arm’s length in the last second, feeling him graze your back as he falls to the floor.

This reprieve won’t last long though. You already see the man pulling himself up. You look around quickly for something to use against him. There is a flower pot on a nearby window sill. You grab it and let it drop.

THUNK

Bullseye! The big man goes down.

You breathe a sigh of relief and return to ground level.

“Are you… alright?” a familiar voice asks.

“Amina…” you say.

“How… how did you know my name?” the girl asks with a confused and alarmed look on her face. She clutches the magic pendant tightly and takes a step back.

You realize that Amina’s wish has brought you all the way back to the first moment you two met. When she made her wish, you must have thought back to the way things were, because of the way she worded it. Now you’re back at the beginning again. Only things are unraveling differently. You nearly got your head taken out by the hired goon and now Amina seems suspicious of you. She has the pendant, but are you still her genie or is she the genie? You need to put her at ease to gain her trust again, or you could just grab the pendant and make a wish to see what happens.