Edited by A_Little_Show's spouse
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"Prove it."
"I don't need to prove anything. I said you wouldn't believe me."
"If you weren't so damn smok'n hot, I'd run - not walk - away right now."
"Thanks. I think," Andrea sipped white wine from a red solo cup.
"There isn't anything you can do to show me?"
"It's usually fun to try." Andrea winked.
"What does that mean?"
"Let's just say that I need orgasms to make it work."
"That's SO HOT. Now you have to show me."
"Not so fast buddy. I hardly know you."
"How many spells have you cast?"
"Lots. I've lost count."
"You have an orgasm each time?"
"Often multiple," Andrea smiled. She had a free pass to get wild and indulge her fantasies.
"Have you slept with a lot of men?"
"That's not a nice thing to ask a woman." Andrea's playful mood started too sour. "As it happens, I'm a virgin."
"No way! Are you telling me you gave yourself all those orgasms?"
"What's so strange about that? I'm a lusty hot blooded witch. I don't need some nerd pawing me, although..." Andrea hesitated. "It does make my spells more powerful when more people are involved."
"More people! You get off with other people?"
"Sometimes. Does that surprise you? I'm an exhibitionist witch at heart."
"Show me! You have to show me!"
"I don't have any pressing needs right now. I don't take my craft lightly. If I had a spell formulated and ready to go, so to speak, I might let you watch."
Elfman blushed and his fingers subconsciously brushed his erection through his cargo shorts. It drew Andrea's attention to the area.
"You are cute." Andrea smiled, "But, like I said, I don't need to prove anything."
Elfman seemed desperate to find some more persuasive approach. His tequila-blurred appraisal of the young woman with raven black hair and a pearly white complexion screamed "witch" to his subconscious. He wanted to believe her. He eventually asked, "Why even tell me if you knew I wouldn't believe you, and you aren't going to prove it? At least tell me more about how it works. How powerful are you?"
Andrea had tried explaining to other people before. It was probably another manifestation of her exhibitionism. She dressed the part in a flowing black dress with laces up the center of the bodice. She preferred the laces loose to expose the small amount cleavage between her breasts. She relished bending over to give the curious a glimpse down the front of the dress. Her only makeup consisted of black lipstick. Taking her unlaced black hiking boots into account, her presentation created as sexy blend of renaissance festival and punk.
"I'm very powerful. I haven't even reached the limits yet."
"Give me an example. What spells have you cast?"
"I made it snow on the hottest day of a sweltering summer."
"I would have heard of that." Elfman's skepticism stung Andrea's pride even though she expected it.
"No, you wouldn't. That's how witchcraft works. There's always some logical explanation. You - muggles - are incapable of admitting the truth and will rationalize anything. It's actually a good thing. I can be open about what I am or secretive. It doesn't make any difference."
"So, how did we rationalize snow in the summer?"
"Some expert on TV talked about a thermal inversion producing small granule hail. I can't prove it wouldn't have happened without my spell. Go ahead and think I'm delusional."
"It was a coincidence?"
"I believe in coincidence. I experience it so often I call it witchcraft."
"That doesn't sound like witchcraft," Elfman hedged.
"Well, that's how it works. Take it or leave it."
"You have to show me!"
Andrea relished these types of conversations when they inevitably reach this point. He was dancing in the palm of her hand. If she told him he had to lick her until his tongue went numb, he'd do it. She didn't even need to cast a spell.
Elfman continued. "How does it work? Do you wiggle your nose like that witch in the TV show?"
"In a way," Andrea smirked. "I just wiggle my clitoris instead of my nose. It works much better, and it feels so, so good."
"Why aren't you rich and rule the world with your awesome powers?"
"I probably could, but I have everything I want for now. Plus, I'm cautious."
"Why?"
Have you ever read a short story called "The Monkey's Paw?"
"It sounds familiar."
"In the story, a married couple got a real monkey paw that would grant three wishes. The husband wished for money to pay off his house, and shortly later, his son died in an accident. The settlement for his son's death exactly matched the amount of money needed to pay off the house. The wife wished for the son to come back and live at home, but the son was horribly mangled and had been buried for a week. As the zombie son pawed at the locked front door, the husband used the last wish for his son to be dead and in the grave."
"Shit. Can you raise the dead?"
"That's what you took from the story?" Andrea raised an eyebrow. "It scared my pants back on, so to speak. I try to be careful about spells. I've never noticed my craft bring misery, but the universe is a trickster. More than once, my spells have brought me exactly what I want in ways I definitely didn't want. I don't like to give the universe too many opportunities."
"That guy in the story was an idiot anyway." Elfman appeared to sober up. "He should have just wished for more wishes or wished to reverse time back to when his son was alive."
"Funny you mention that. I can't actually change the past. Believe me, I've wanted to more than a few times."
"That sucks."
"It's not so limiting if you know how to game the system. For example, I can't change the past so that we never had this conversation. I just change the future so you won't remember having this conversation."
"What? Don't do that! The things you are telling me could change the world. I have to see this in action."
"I told you. I could cast a spell right now - at least in a few minutes if you help work me up to it - but you still wouldn't believe me. You'd say it was going to happen anyway. There is ALWAYS some logical explanation. That craft keeps a low profile that way."
"What if you cast a spell for something so outrageously impossible that people would have to believe you."
This iteration of the conversation was proceeding further than Andrea had ever taken it before. Elfman seemed more enthusiastic than the others. "You keep putting your finger right on my limitations. It's uncanny. The more improbable the outcome, the more powerful the spell needs to be. I've had some world shaking orgasms, but I've never had one strong enough to fill the Grand Canyon with gold or anything like that."
"Witchcraft is starting to sound very limited. So what's it actually good for then?"
"The trick is to be incremental. If I want a big change in the universe, I don't rub myself raw for one cataclysmic bang. I make tiny changes here and there. Each change in isolation is explainable, but over time, I can move mountains."
"Have you moved any mountains?"
"Well, no. I've never wanted to move a mountain. I have moved some people, though."