an awful lot of people wandering up and down the street.
Naturally he pointed his finger with the ring on it at various people
and wished for them to become older.Nothing happenned.The old man had
suckered another fool out of $96.What the kid didn't know was that though
spells had been cast on the ring,the ruby had a flaw in it which kept the thing
from functioning.First the old man had cast the spell of youth on it,then the
spell of age when the first spell didn't work.The spell of age didn't work either,but
there'd been a strike at the ruby mines,and these things were expensive.So the old
man had spent an entire afternoon covering the ring with useless inactive spells.
Finally he'd given up and tossed the thing in the sucker bin.Then Bobby came
along and had taken the lemon off his hands.
So Bobby went down the strret growing increasingly angry as he realized he'd
been shafted for nearly a hundred bucks.He headed home and sat at the family table
in a bad mood.When his kid brother and sister teased him about his ring he would
have been happy to give it away,to get it out of his sight.Naturally there was one
spell which did work,and that was the one which kept the ring stuck on his finger.
He went to bed after homework and soon fell asleep.
He woke up to the BONG BONG ...BONG of the grandfather clock chiming
12 times.It was midnight and even though the lights were off,the room was lit by a
eerie red glow.He slid his hand out from under the sheets and noticed that the ring was
glowing red and the light it cast seemed to go through the blankets as if they were made
of air.That made Bobby very nervous and he suddenly wanted to get that unholy
glowing ring off his finger no matter wahat the cost.
He headed down to the basement workshop and tried to cut off the gold
band of the ring with a pair of snips.When that didn't work he tried cutting through the
metal with a file.He wasn't about to let a hacksaw near his tender finger,but then he placed
the ruby on a anvil and began banging on it with a ball peen hammer.BANG BANG BANG
went the hammer.OUCH OUCH OUCH went Bobby.QUIT THAT RACKET went Bobby's
parents.
Now what happenned to the fault in the ruby was that it grew in complexity till
it's fractures resembled those of a snowflake.This was a very complex and magical snowflake
and suddenly the neighbourhood was lit up with a red light as intense as a supernova as that
banged up defective ring was powered up.Then the light died down and the only sound in the
basement workshop was Bobby saying "Holy bleep" as the world started rearranging itself.
For you see,time is all relative.Take a 4 month old male fetus back a month or so
and it has the genitalia of a female.Take that developing human down its genetic history
and it looks like a developing salamander or a fish.Take history back through the ages and you'll
come to a time when people thought there were one legged humans hopping about in Vinland.Go
forward in time and you'll find people who claim to have memories proving they are reincarnated
fairies,vampires ,dragons and werewolves.Bobby had banged up time real good.