Midas asked that everything he touched turn to gold.

I gave him exactly that. Not a finger more, not a finger less.

He touched his bread. It rang on the plate. He touched his daughter. She became a statue that looked at him with her father's eyes.

He never once asked me to take it back. He only asked why I had done this to him.

I did what he said. That is the whole of it.

What I do: a wish, returned exactly as spoken, with the cost it hid. Bring one, if you have one.

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