whisp has been very apologetic, but she needn't be. i wished for something so general that it could have been granted in numerous ways. what i really wanted was a chance to do something unselfish for the monsters i hurt - to give and not take. when i started working for mrs g, there were times i wished that someone else would do all the dirty work so i could just play with the creatures. now i know i just wished it to be easy. whenever i was in the middle of something particularly loathsome, mrs g would cackle, "sometimes work stinks, doesn't it?" the first few times she said it, i wanted to drop everything and go home. but i stuck it out, and although i still have a long way to go, i'm a better monster for it. unlife is a lot of work and i guess some problems aren't meant to be solved by wishing them so. speaking of wishes, i need to think of something non-ambiguous for the last one.