“Blink a few times.” Marina scrolled back and forth between the before and after photos, to make sure she wasn’t seeing things, but the evidence was right there. Halcyon’s bags were disappearing.

“Look!” Marina turned her phone to show Halcyon the pic.

Halcyon winced. “Good Lord. That’s worse than I thought.”

“It was. But look at it now.”

Halcyon blinked a couple times and leaned forward, studying the photo, then flipped the images back and forth. Finally, she jumped off her stool and ran into the bathroom.

“Holy shit!” she yelled. “You’re right. The circles are fading and the skin isn’t as puffy. That’s amazing.”

She came back into the kitchen, shaking her head in disbelief. “I didn’t want to believe you. Not about any of this. I mean, I wanted to believe you but it was too far out there. Then my face changes in a matter of thirty minutes and all you did was touch it.”

“It’s kinda overwhelming.”

“It’s awesome!” Halcyon grabbed her by the shoulders. “Can you put my boobs back up where they used to be? Because that would be some magic I’d be seriously interested in. Hell, if you can do that, you could open your own shop and become a billionaire. You’d have to look at more boobs than a straight woman ever wants to see, but still.”

“I don’t think I can lift body parts except with my hands, and I’m pretty sure no one is going to pay me to do that.”

“You’d be surprised.” Halcyon scrunched her brow. “What about hot flashes? Can you make them go away? Or whip up a cold front?”

“If I could do that I wouldn’t be standing here sweating and wearing only a tank top.”

“I thought you’d taken a shower before I got here and didn’t bother drying before answering the door.”

“No. I stripped off my bra as soon as I got in the car, but the rest of it came off when hellfire and brimstone converged on me while getting the coffeepot set up. I thought I was going to spontaneously combust. I stood in front of the refrigerator so long I’m afraid my lunch meat spoiled.”

“So you can’t solve the world’s biggest problems, but you can give people a facelift and find magical objects. Hey, maybe the ring can lift boobs.”

“It sounds like a bit of a stretch. Besides, if we find the ring and these gods come through on their promise, then I’ll have a million dollars. We could lift our boobs up to our chins with that kind of money.”

Halcyon shook her head. “Have you seen what they do? They cut your nipples off! I looked it up online, thinking it can’t be that bad and I’d really love to wear a tank without a bra again—outside of the house, I mean. Horror story! I couldn’t eat for two days.”

“Oh my God. That’s awful. Custom-made tanks then. Even if they weren’t good enough for public consumption, I’d be happy just to not roll over on one while I was sleeping.”