Can marry humans (Jacinth + Douglas)
Have their own society/rules/council
Can do magic without granting wishes (Jacinth's kitchen tricks)
Some are royalty (Kieran = prince!)
Can change their appearance? (the Qur'an says so… ask about this!)
Live basically forever (Jacinth = 900+, Kieran = ancient at least 3,000 years)
Questions tumbled through her mind.Did most Djinn live in Qaf, or among humans like Jacinth? Could they have children with humans? What authority did this Council have over them?
She created another section: "Supernatural Beings" and typed the first entry: Djinn. The cursor blinked after that single entry. If Djinn existed, what other creatures might be real? She'd ask Jacinth - she seemed to share information more freely than Kieran did. The prince. Her mind still stumbled over that fact. A Djinn prince -PRINCE! - in her living room, offering three wishes.
Right - the wishes.
Opting for a spreadsheet to enumerate the things she could potentially wish for, Mandy opened Excel and created a new spreadsheet, labeling the first tab "Wishes." Her fingers hovered over the keys as she considered the column headers. After a moment's thought, she typed:
Wish | Category | Priority | Pros | Cons | Questions
The familiar grid pattern of Excel felt reassuring, its neat columns promising order from chaos. She had so many spreadsheets, using them for everything from royalties to newsletter content to household inventory. Why should organizing potential wishes be any different?
Under "Category," she would use different options: Health, Financial, Career, Personal, Other. Each wish could be properly sorted and filtered this way. Priority would be simple: VH (Very High), High, Medium, Low. The other columns would allow for detailed analysis of each possibility.
She typed her first entry:
"Pain" | Health | Very High
Skipping the various other columns, she went straight to Questions, and typed, "Can wishes help? There wasn't even any point in thinking about this as an option if even Djinn magic couldn't help her back, after all.
Mandy added a new line to her spreadsheet:
