Billy awoke his normal little kid self, in a dank cave that smelled of Hungarian food. Walking around he found an old woman poking meat on a spit and there was a forest just outside the cave entrance.
"Ah. You are awake. Good!" she said, in a typical Eastern European gyspy accent.
"What's going on? How come...?"
"Ah, little one. You I have decided are going to help me. You see, there are ways in the world you can help other than what you have done. How would you like to be my apprentice? I am sure you would like that, yes? If not, I can always return you to where you were...on your way to a retirement home..."
"Why me? Why not the others?"
"They are not as smart. You are. I like your style, and I think we could work well together."
"What would you have me do?"
"What else? Transform people. But it would be for political reasons as well as wish fulfillment. There are leaders of this world, both political and business, who are childish, and that would do well to have that externa...external...made to look that way on the outside too."
A slow smile crept across Billy's face.
"What's my first assignment?"
The Madame Illusia looked at him covertly, and motioned him forward.
"I will let you decide. We have on the list a corporate magnate. He owes me and lots of others money. He is greedy and corrupt. We have an Army officer who is far too cruel, (he outed several of his fellows and got them thrown out of the military), and lastly we have any number of politicians. Choose!"