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"If Ravin decided to make all three wishes then I can make sure I snatch the flask just as he make the last one. Then I can bring you back to life, right? If that happened, I promise that I'd keep you around for a long time, Saras."

Again, Saras smiled. It had been tried before, he remembered. It simply didn�t work like that. �I promise Sarosh. I�ll hold onto the flask tight.. I�ll never let go. I promise!�

But Saras didn�t have the heart to tell that to Jeremy. He liked talking to the boy too much to depress him with the news that inevitably he would have to leave. That he would simply fall to the ground as a pile of sand and the Flask would catch fire suddenly and burn out. If he had the choice, that would be once thing, but he didn�t. It just happened. No Genie was free to pursue a life outside of what they could squeeze in while they were bound to someone. That was just how it worked.

"My parents died in a plane crash on my world, If you were MY genie and I wished for my parents to be alive again, would my wish come true?"

Sarosh�s smile faded as Jeremy confided in him one of his true heart�s wishes. Saras could sense it. Saras wished he could reach into himself and make the wish reality. Jeremy wanted nothing as much as he wanted his family back. It pained him somewhat, that Jeremy�s wish would be one he could never grant. Had he been another Genie, perhaps the wish could be granted� but it would be Jeremy�s luck that Sarosh the Useless was the one who had been found. �If I could grant a wish such as that, I would do so in an instant.� Sarosh said gently, touching the boy�s face with a slender hand, and giving him a sad sympathetic smile. �Death��

"Saras!" Ravin called out suddenly. Instantly, Saras� head snapped over to Ravin. His master�s call impossible to ignore. "I really WISH I knew how to read and write."

Sarosh opened his mouth to explain the long neglected drawback of having found him, rather then a competent genie, when he felt his body ignite with what he recognized as his genie essence. He felt like he was burning. Not an unpleasant sensation for a creature originally made from fire, but one that was alien to him since it had been dormant for so long.

Sarosh�s eyes grew wide as he realized that Ravin�s wish was about to grant itself. He couldn�t explain it, since he knew himself to be powerless. Yet, nonetheless, the part inside of him where the magic had burnt out long ago, was reacting. It was reaching in him, trying to make the wish true, since it had been a wish deep inside of Ravin�s heart. The magic should have been gone, but there was something that it found that seemed to be as useful.

Sarosh dropped the can of Pepsi as sudden pain lurched through him. He wrapped his slender arms around himself and doubled over with a half muted cry of pain. His hair tumbled over his shoulder, having been let loose of it�s knot once they had stopped. The fire that the group sat around suddenly shot high into the sky, and a coil of fire emerged like a giant winged snake from between his shoulders and struck Ravin with enough force to knock the Thief onto his back. Then, there was nothing, except a raspy murmur and shudder of pain from the genie. Sarosh, who had muted the empty feeling inside of himself with food once again felt the coldness where the magic should have been,. The food he had eaten, had warmed the spot warmed, ever so slightly, making him feel better about the emptiness inside. But, the emptiness was back, creeping through his body like a dreadful coldness. He had not felt like this since the first time. Since his magic had been taken away.

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