A simple gold ring, that was it. No jewels, no funny inscriptions, no faint aura of energy. It was simply a gold ring, an endless loop made out of a metal that never corrodes. How then was I suppose to know what was to come? But master, let me explain what has happened so far.

I was happy and content, walking to school. I was 18, a senior in high school, dating, and well happy. Yes I was happy I see that now. As I came to an intersection, I spotted the ring, it wasn't clean but it still caught light the way gold always does. The glimmer is all I needed to look closer. It seemed sized for me, and so I picked it up out of the gutter. I held it for a bit and looked around, but no one was there. I considered what to do with it and decided to simply slip it on. I wore it for some time that day before I discovered the truth.

I cleaned the ring, and suddenly time stopped. A man stood before me, one with transparent flesh and piercing eyes. He called me master and explained I had three wishes. I asked why and his response was with a large smile, because that is all I have left to give. I understand the smile now, perhaps not well but at least a little. All the same my mind went the same place as nearly all others. Greed caught the better of me, and it didn't catch me on wish two or wish three it caught right there at my first wish. I wished for more wishes; no that is not true. I wished for unlimited wishes, such a greed driven request.

At that instant, I understood. I was given the power to grant wishes, an unlimited number of them but none my own. I became a slave. My genie had once wished for more wishes himself and so he has two remaining to grant. Then he will be free, what that entails I do not know but his power of wishes would be gone and joyfully I imagine.

You are my first master, and I already crave freedom. But I am bound to that ring, how you got that ring I do not know, but I imagine a similar story to mine. Only one key difference, I only was given three wishes, the wishes my genie had left. You master, you have unlimited wishes at your disposal.