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She looked at her reflection in the water of the shallow well. Luxuriant midnight black hair to her breathtakingly slender waist, matching dark eyes in a lovely face. A torso coming yea-close to absolute perfection. She was man\u2019s desire. That was part of the problem.<\/p>\n

Well, on with it. \u201cOh, Wishing Well, they say you will grant any wish, provided you like the offering given for it. But that if you don\u2019t like the offering, you may still grant the wish, but not in a way the wisher wants. So the wisher is sorry she ever bothered you. So it\u2019s a gamble, because no one really knows what you like.\u201d<\/p>\n

She paused, but of course there was no answer. The surface of the water remained mirror-smooth. But it did seem to be listening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey also say that the correct way to approach you is to introduce yourself, explain your situation, make your wish, and then drop the offering into the water. That the wish will be granted instantly, and that\u2019s it; if you don\u2019t like the way it is done, you\u2019re still stuck with it. You don\u2019t do un-wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a faint ripple. Was that interest?<\/p>\n

\u201cI was named Irrelevant Kandy, because\u2014well, I don\u2019t exactly know why. But I think I was named in part after the irrelephant, which is a large white or pink animal with a very long nose that is incapable of making any difference no matter how hard it tries. My name is a curse, because everyone ignored me, thinking I was irrelevant, when I\u2019m actually a very pretty girl, as you can see. So I tried going by my initial instead. That made me I Kandy. Then everyone looked at me. In fact they looked too much; their eyes wandered to places that, well, made me blush. Wherever I go, now, those Wandering Eyes pursue me. I almost feel them peering down inside my halter and up under my skirt, trying to pull off my clothing. They don\u2019t care about me at all, just how I look, or how certain parts of me look, and their cynosure makes me feel dirty there. This is no good either.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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