This was going to be difficult. I still hadn't come up with any answers. My mind and body had been pretty clearly preoccupied. I wondered if I should tell him the truth. But he couldn't possibly accept that. For one thing, I'd wished for him to not remember being my mother. And if there was one thing he definitely was not was a female. He'd probably laugh at me. Unless I wished him to remember being my mother. That was my problem. I remembered who he had been. This was causing me no end of grief.
I got off the bed and paced back and forth. I tried to buy some time. "Are you sure you don't know who you are?" I asked.
He thought for a moment. "Uh, yea, pretty sure," he replied. "I mean, I'm thinking...and there's nothing there."
Well, if anything, I knew that the ring could have a powerful effect on one's perception. I stopped pacing and stood still. I thought for a few seconds. I looked around my room. My horrible, horrible room. Too small, too ugly, not the kind of place most people would like to live given a choice of decent options. Then I thought about my mother. How she worked and worked and never got ahead. She'd never deserved that. But I still felt guilty about turning her into a sex fantasy.
That's when it hit me. I didn't turn her into my sex fantasy. I'd turned her into this body's sex fantasy. I'd changed myself first, so I wasn't really myself anymore. I was someone different now. We both were. Did I want to go back to being me? Hell no! This body felt too fucking good. The ring made me this way, so it knew this must have been what I'd really wanted all along. If that was the case, then I was going to continue on like this. But I'd need to make a few quick adjustments.
"Do you trust me?" I asked him.
He furrowed his brow. "I guess so," he said. "Why?"
"I just need to know," I said. "So you'll believe me. Because what I have to tell you might be hard to believe."
"I'll believe you," he said. "I mean, what we just did..."
Good, I thought. We were about to embark on an adventure. In order to do that, I had to make some alterations.