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Lauren was having a good morning. He awoke next to a pile of sleeping bodies. Jasper slept in the corner which was fine by Lauren, but all the rest were piled on the bed after their late night orgy. Lauren was careful in extracting himself from the women. He smiled as he looked at Isabelle. The shifter elf was someone that trusted him and he knew to never let her down. In fact, he looked down at himself and saw that he had her body since she was the last person he penetrated last night. This curse was scary since the party could not cast curing magic on him, but it had its perks. He played with his breasts for a bit before going and getting dressed.

He went downstairs to see an interesting sight. Cinders was standing in front of Ilya. Ilya had that look of... well not confusion per se since Ilya always knew what was going on, but distraction. She was not focused on the woman that Lauren had wished from one of the deadliest assassins in the world to one of the best lays in the world. Lauren vaguely remembered that Brook stripped in the bar at night though that might have been to watch the party or maybe it happened after he wished her into being one of Cinders's employees. The two quickly looked over at him and Cinders walked up to him, "Since Isabelle doesn't wear clothes, I assume you're Lauren?"

He nodded and Cinders dived into an explanation of what had just happened. Lauren listened and shook his head. He should have known that Ilya would not be a good keeper of the stone. She was too distractible. He might even say ditzy, though that seemed rude. He was glad that someone on the team, or that he had made to be on the team, had seen this and stopped someone else from getting the stone. He hoped that Cinders was using the stone responsibly. Or better yet not at all. That was when she held it out to him.

"Here. Take this back."

Lauren blinked, "Uh, no thanks. I don't want the stone back."

"I realize that you think that you do not want the stone back, but that is only because of a wish that Ilya made."

"It doesn't matter what the source of my reasoning is. I don't want the stone back. You can hold onto it.. In fact, I want you to keep it safe."

Cinders felt surprise at that. She also felt guilty. Yesterday she remembered trying to kill master Lauren and now he was entrusting her with a reality bending stone. She knew that she had to prove herself worthy. She knew that if Ilya had not changed his mind on all of this then he would take the stone back. She realized slowly that he could not fight that wish anymore than she could fight her loyalty to him. She thought about what she should do from here.

She tried to work with the wishes already on the table, "I think that we should figure out our next steps with the wishing stone. What were your next plans with it?"

"Take on Duke Aaron. Probably in a sexy way."

Cinders moistened at that. She wanted to get sexy with Lauren. Still, that was a good idea. She started percolating ideas about that when Ilya spoke up, "What about, like, making ourselves stronger? That's what I did."

Lauren nodded, "I did something like that too, though I was a bit panicked when I did it."

Cinders interjected, "Lauren has already made me a world class eromancer." To illustrate, she made both of them aroused. Of course, this meant she made herself aroused as well. She continued in a breathy voice, "Anyone want to go upstairs?"

Lauren nodded, "Of course. Oh! Though, Ilya, what all did you wish for? That might be important."

Ilya had been lost in another thought and turned to Lauren. She opened her mouth to speak when Cinders interrupted, "Oh wait! I know how to fix this! I wish that Lauren knew all the wishes this stone granted and what the world was like before each wish."

There was a pause, then Lauren gripped his head in pain and started screaming. The patrons watching Brooke turned to look and Bora the bartender asked if he was ok. Not that he noticed any of that. His head felt like it was splitting open. Cinders was panicking. She did not think the stone could be dangerous like this. She needed to do something, fast.

"I wish that Lauren was invincible!"

Lauren stood up, or maybe he was always standing since the wish was retroactive? Cinders wasn't sure. All she knew was that he was smiling at her. This was good.

He spoke with confidence, "Thank you Cinders. And I think I know what we need to do."