Finding the old lamp on the beach had been bad enough. To find a bad tempered Jen in it was worse. Having a bad-tempered Jen found by a contract lawyer that had big ideas is truly the worst possible outcome. The first thing our intrepid lawyer did was to give a command that prevented Jen from granting any of his wishes until he had it properly worded and laid out and finished much like a computer program that has been tested and fully debugged. It needed an execute command to go into effect.

He spent many evenings talking with Jen about details and loopholes in each section of the three wishes he was allowed. As he closed each one, Jen seemed to grow sadder. When asked about why this was so, Jen explained that it was a cursed Jen. It was to use the loopholes to be the undoing of its master. No loopholes, no escape for it from its current master. It had never reached the second wish so far in the many thousands of years it had been trapped in this world. The first wish alone had a full dozen steps in it. Each step must be completed in full and using the legal laws of the land they lived in. Only when a step was completed could Jen move to the next step.

The money wasn’t even the first step. It was to assist in improving its master’s health as a training coach. This alone could take many months, but Jen went ahead with the task as written in the contract. Once it thought it had found a loophole, but a contingency clause prevented it from causing its master from working himself to heart failure.