"I don't know" I said nonchalantly. I made one more wish as I walked to the fridge to get something to eat. I was feeling power, I wanted to create more caoss and fear, so my next wish was that the next reporter or group of reporters to appear on my TV screen would transform slowly into a anthro version of their Chinese zodiac animal by 6:00 pm, which was an hour away.
The news switched back to the main news room. "we will be back in a sec" The woman on the right said clearly scared and the channel flicked to commercials.
My mom turned to me "what do you think is goin' on?" my mom asked me.
"Maybe its some new virus or something" I said jokingly.
The TV flicked back to the news reporters, time was 5:20 pm, they looked unchanged. I whispered another wish, for their transformations to finish in 10 minutes. The male reporter stopped talking, he screamed in pain, then you could see it he was transforming, but someone rushed in front of the camera. "sorry folks something is going on, please let us deal with it, we will come back on the air when we have more information" He said. The station flicked to a rerun of some show with a warning banner of what happened scrolling on the bottom of the screen. I clearly had started something, as my mom flicked through the stations, the news of what just was happening was showing up on other stations, even CNN.