"I'm so happy. I don't think I've ever been this happy. It feels weird."

"In a good way, I hope."

"Yeah." Squeeze. "Do you want me to make any things because I can make! Any! Things!"

"I should have anticipated I'd need a wishlist for the occasion. Celebratory milkshakes?"

Now there are two of those! "...since I'm not technically a demon I wonder if I can make minds. Or antimatter."

"Well, if you want to try antimatter get T'Mir to show you how to refuel Prometheus, and if you want to try minds try animals or wait until somebody from Space wants to fork and see if you can shortcut that."

...he tries to make a local species of bird.

The bird appears. It plops unsteadily to the ground. At length, it blinks. Its wings droop.

"That looks like a pretty demonic bird."

"Yeah." He has mixed feelings about this. "I'm glad I'm more like a demon but it'd be useful if I wasn't."

Squeeze.

"And I want to ask my parents if they'll wish me a making-things-I-made-vanish power, so I don't clutter things when I get excited. But Gem thought it'd be mean to tell them I'd spent time with them if they wished me magic."

"Well, yes, it would be. What would you think if somebody you wanted to spend time with would only do it if you did stuff for them?"

"...I'd do more and better stuff? I'd do stuff no one else could do?"

"Well, maybe that's what you'd do but how would you feel about it?" She sips her milkshake. "- this is awesome."

Grin. "I'd hope that if I did enough stuff maybe they'd like me?"

"So you'd assume they didn't already like you, if you said that."

"Yeah, of course. If people like you they want to be around you even if you're not doing stuff for them."

"Exactly. And it's not nice to call attention to how much you don't like somebody. If you dislike them enough maybe you don't care about being nice to them, but in this case you should probably care."

"I don't dislike them I just don't ever want to be around them."

"You just said if people like you they want to be around you."

"I don't like them! I also don't dislike them! They just kind of. Are."

"And they will not be happy to have attention called to that."

"...I can invite them to take a vacation through all the worlds with me, and end at Gem's and make a wish?"

"That'd probably go over better, but what are you going to do if they think of other things they'd rather wish for?"

"Get better at not cluttering with random stuff, I guess. Or invent a wizardry spell for it."