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"I wish no one would care that she's naked."
I had said that wish, hoping it would make everyone think it was normal, all right, not unusual, whatever, for this woman to be naked. Could the ring affect the mind?
Maybe. But that's not what it tried to do in this case.
Everyone there cared, one way or another, about a naked human in the middle of the street. The way the ring granted this wish was to turn her into ...