Katie smiled in her sleep. Gone was any semblance of remembering her mother, and as her wish transformed the world around her, it transformed her. She forgot all about the initial wishes she made with the ring, and as she did, the circumstances around her changed. She'd met the other girls in a bar that evening and she'd offered them a place to crash for the night. As the ring warmed, Katie's memories were of growing up in a foster home, never really having a fun childhood. She'd become a self made woman, and today she'd found this strange ring that had allowed her to change her own age just a little bit. The change had awakened something inside her, some yearning for an inner child she had forgotten. Now as she slept, Katie began to talk in her sleep: