It's a Deal

"Well yes, I am actually. It's rather obvious, even with you on your back as you are at the moment. I'm a connoisseur of female beauty. Why else would I have kept your great-aunt for the last fifty years?"

"You said that I had to bring Billingsley to you. How am I to do that? I'd hoped that you could cast a spell on him at a distance."

"I'm not all-powerful. I can't cast a spell on him at this range. You will have to bring him to me. And your sister too, if you want her to be your brother once more."

"How am I supposed to do that? It must involve a journey of hundreds of miles, and our only vessel has drifted away beyond hope of retrieval. And Billingsley certainly won't want to come."

"If you hug both Billingsley and your sister simultaneously, at the same time as you say my name five times, I can use the mental link thus established to bring you to me, and since you will be holding them they will come too."

"That would have been fairly easy for one of them, but hugging them both at the same time may be difficult."

"Well, that's your problem. It doesn't have to be a hug. Holding hands would be sufficient."

"Do I have any guarantee that when I bring them to you, you will keep your side of the bargain?"

1. "None whatsoever."
2. "I've done many things that people call evil, but when I've given my word I've never gone back on it."
3. "Never mind that. I sense a genie somewhere in the vicinity. You haven't told me about him."

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