A few minutes later I found myself hanging out in Cathy's bedroom, a posh horse friendly shed in the back yard with full electricity, gas, and water.
Cathy was laying all fours on a plush quilted rug on the floor with me beside her in front of the fireplace. Yes, she had a fireplace. We had sat down together, kissed some more, and started talking. It turned out that once you got to know her Cathy really wasn't that bad, and she was quite a lot of fun. Even if I hadn't of kind of seduced her with a wish I think she would have won me over anyway.
Now we had broken open a bottle of red wine and I had poured two glasses. I sipped my own and swirled it, occasionally reaching down to lift Cathy's glass to her mouth and let her drink.
"So... this is nice." I grinned, leaning back into her side.
"Uh, yeah!" She blurted out, snorting. "You're already treating me better than most of the guys I've ever met."
I sipped my wine again and melted against her, grinning with my eyes closed. "So! I have to ask you a question!"
"Yessss?" She turned, smirking.
"Do you believe in magic?" I opened my eyes excitedly and turned to her, grinning.
She laughed. "Aw, I was hoping you were going to ask something else." She snorted again and grinned, then considered the question. "Naw, magic isn't real. I don't believe in that silly stuff at all."
"Ha!" I held up a finger triumphantly in the air, set down my wine glass. "I was hoping you'd say that." I wrung my hands together. "So for my next trick, I'm going to magically make you smaller."
The horse scoffed and smirked. "Ha! Sure! And I suppose you're going to pull a rabbit out of your hat, too."
"No!" I laughed, "No, for serious! I'll make my nice big horse into a nice little horse."
"Whatever." Cathy rolled her eyes and had me give her some more wine. "That's not real life, it's just silly fantasy nonsense. Imagine, make me smaller. Like, how?" She giggled. "Just go 'abacadabra!' and poof, I'm small?"
"No, I just wish for it, and you'd shrink as small as I want." I stood up and looked down at her disbelieving smirk.
"Oh, a wish!" Cathy laughed. "Even better. Have you had too much wine?"
"No, I'll prove it!" I ignored her smug snort. "It's so simple, all I have to say is I wish Cathy would shrink to half her normal size."
"Ha!" Cathy mocked. "You have quite the imagi..." Cathy blinked as rather suddenly she began to dwindle. "Nation." She finished, and her jaw dropped as she watched everything getting bigger and herself getting smaller as she laid there, shrinking.
"See?" I giggled.
"James!" The horse gasped, her voice just a little higher pitched. "H-How are you doing this to me?! W-What's happening!" She looked at me frantically, back at herself, stood up in alarm, and her eyes went wide as her head barely came up to my chest. "James! I shrank!" She watched her gaze lowering and blinked. "I-I'm still shrinking! James! Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames!" She cried, as she became no taller than my waist. As she stopped shrinking at half her normal self, she stared at my waist, then stared up at me.
"Hi!" I grinned, patting her on the head. "Look at you, you got all cute!" I kneeled down and hugged her much smaller body close.
"You... you shrank me." She said, staring off into the distance in shock. "How did you shrink me?"
"Easy!" I leaned back, rubbing her chest. "Everything I wish for comes true."
"Anything?" She asked, blinking. "Really? How?"
"Magic ring." I stated matter of factly, pointing to my hand.
"I'd say rubbish." Cathy looked back at herself. "But I just got shrunk into half a horse." She looked at me with a smirk and brightened. "W-What else can you do? Can you make me big again? Am I stuck like this?"
"Of course, and no." I rubbed her side and patted it, running my fingers through her hair. "All I have to do is wish. So I wish Cathy would grow back to her normal size."
She jumped, clattering on her hooves as her body quickly grew back to her normal stature. She wobbled on her hooves, almost tripping over herself, and gulped as she stared down at me. "Whoa! That was trippy!"
"Or maybe you'd like to be bigger." I stood up, looking her in the eye. "So I wish Cathy was *twice* her normal size."
"What?!" She blinked, and her eyes went wide as suddenly she grew enormous, quickly filling up her room as she became nearly 16 feet tall. She gulped, sat on her haunches, and looked down at me. "James..." She blinked. "This is surreal."
"Too big?" I rubbed my chin, considering. "Okay. I wish Cathy would shrink to her normal size again."
And so she did, returning to her original proportions. She stared at me in awe, just blinking slack jawed.
"Convinced yet?" I asked sweetly, rubbing her chin to comfort her. The poor dear was shocked.
"You can... do anything?" She confirmed, looking at my hand and the ring.
"Anything I want." I hugged her tenderly and sighed happily. "Anything my horsie desires."
"Hmmm..." She smirked. "Then I have an idea for how we can make this night more interesting."