He will be so responsible. He is totally satisfied with his backup wish. But he really hopes it doesn't come to that because he wants to be a demon so so so much he would be so good at being a demon.

Boots would like to hear his account of what "responsible" means there, but if it sounds about right she will tell Gem it's okay with her.

He won't read private stuff without a really good reason like 'it's Melkor's' or 'we badly need to know it to stop lots of people dying'. 

Okay. And if you are going to conjure something and don't know what it is you shouldn't be near anything hard to replace (magic stuff, warp engines full of antimatter, anything with a mind, anything that would make a mess if destroyed that would be annoying to clean up) and sure.

Yeah, yeah, all of that hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop where's Gem.

Here's Gem. "Hi."

"I want to wish to be a demon, or to have the power to conjure arbitrary material objects if that's likely to work better, and my backup wish is to be able to store the contents of books in my eidetic memory without reading them."

"The power to conjure arbitrary material objects is likely to work better," Gem says. "It might turn out that being a demon fundamentally requires being attached to Hell, which is out of wish range, or that it'd reject the wish because demons can conjure based on non-adjacent information and you'd be able to get a version that could do everything except that if you wished for the power alone. Do you have wordings?"

"I wish to be able to conjure arbitrary material objects? And I wish to be able to add books to my memory without reading them?"

"Just books? How will you identify books to add?"

"I'd think 'I want to add this'? And I can do 'any information I have access to' if I'm allowed."

"If the arbitrary material objects thing works like you want it it'll be functionally pretty similar."

"Well, yeah, but the backup wish is for if I don't get the arbitrary material objects thing."

"Yeah, I just mean that if you're allowed the first you're allowed the second. And no magic rock, right?"

"Boots thinks I might not be great at the emotion management bit."

"Yeah, if you forget to do things like eat and sleep even when you need to do them and you have any emotion management trouble to start out it'd be really hard. Okay, that's all I need to know, you ready?"

He is so ready he wants to be a demon so so badly.

Then she will hook him up to the wish granty thing and he can wish his wish.

"I wish to be able to conjure arbitrary material objects -"

It goes!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee here are books and here is a glass vase and here it is raining and here is a spaceship and here is a scale model of a dragon and here are some peppermints and here is a miniature of the palace in Tirion and here is whatever Boots most recently wrote - that one doesn't go through - and here are deficient Space Silmarils -

"I think you oughtn't make Silmarils, even dumb ones, because they may turn out to count oathwise. You'll have to leave those in Space on your way home."

"Okaaaaay. One of my space forks should probably wish that any Silmaril anyone tries to steal will just appear in his hands, there are so many of them that it's not like they'll run out of wishes and then they wouldn't have to worry about it."

"You can suggest that. It might have an adjacency limit or something, though, Joy's teleporting does, so does my power."

"My power does, I tried conjuring what Boots most recently wrote and I didn't get anything."