Recuperate with Amina first.

You clean yourself off with some of Stacy's old clothes and get dressed. Maybe it's a petty form of ****, but there is still some satisfaction in knowing that you've robbed your crotch in a shirt she may wear again some day. She made you do the work, it's her fault if she doesn't check to make sure it's done right. After cleaning up, you join Amina in the burger lunch she brought with her. You eat silently as you think about your next move.

"This is nice," Amina smiled, looking down at her burger.

"Hmm?" you sound out, after coming out of your trance. "You like the burger?"

"No... well, it's good too. I mean you and me alone together like this."

You smile at your genie. "You never had much alone time with your masters before?"

Amina shakes her head, explaining, "They usually keep me granting wishes or lock me up in the pendant..." The girl gives a distant look as if watching a scene play out for a long time ago. "I've never really had time to just sit and enjoy the moment like this... just you and me..."

You think back at the last few days and have to agree they have been more running around and reacting to situations than just sitting around and relaxing.

"I like Melanie and Stacy," Amina says.

"Huh? What brings you to say that?"

"Well, when you get your wishes back, will you be wishing harm on them, master? I hope not."

"So you think I'll get the pendant back?" you smile at the genie's confidence in you.

"Ah... well, Mistress Lynn did allow you to make wishes in the morning..."

"Yeah, if I could find a way to beat her from getting me off, I'd be able to wish for my magic back. I still find it strange she even lets me do that..." you ponder out loud. "What does she gain from letting me have a chance to take her powers away?"

"Stacy said that Mistress Lynn likes to play games."

"Enough to put omnipotence on the line? That's a big gambler there," you reply and scratch your chin. "Besides, what does she have to gain from all this? She's the only one putting something on the line with this game... and how is she supposed to win? All she's doing is tormenting me and taunting me with my former magic."

"Mistress Lynn said that if you did not manage to regain your magic by the end of the week, she would grow bored and leave you as you are," Amina informs you. You raise an eyebrow to the news.

"She wants me to take the magic back?"

"I don't know, master."

"But she's giving me so much opportunity to do so. Do you know why?"

"I cannot say, master."

"Because you don't know or you can't let me know?"

Amina frowns and replies, "I should not have said anything...." She takes a small nibble from her burger and looks down.

So there really is a game going on here and Amina may know more than she's letting on. Exactly how much is she working with her new mistress and to what end? You start to wonder if you can trust your genie fully as you have been doing. She is the eyes and ears for Lynn right now. Maybe it's best to leave Amina at home. Hopefully that love spell won't have any lingering affects on your mom.

The two of you finish your meal and clean up. It's another hour until you finish up tidying for Stacy. Everything is put back into storage and you head up to let Stacy know. While in the elevator, you feel the hard drive in your pocket. You weigh your options with this gold mine of video data. You've done Stacy's bidding, but threatening her with the video could make her back off from any further ****. There's no chance you could use it against Lynn though, who would just wish it away or worse. In fact, if Stacy told Lynn, it'd be the same story. Maybe it's better to keep quiet about the illicit recordings. However, Lynn and Stacy weren't alone in their debauchery. There was the whole squad. You wonder if they would know anything that you could use against Lynn. It's late afternoon and you'd only have enough time to drop Amina off and talk to one of these girls, maybe two before the day is done. Lynn will surely meet up with you in the morning to take your powers away again.