"And I was thinking about trying to add an enchantment that tracks the locations of important players as they move about the world, and that would be so much easier if I was taking it apart to reshape it anyway..."

"Oh fine, I'm sold. Next couple days, probably."

It kisses her fondly. "Good girl for making me reconsider and actually try a very good idea."

She kisses back. "I like organizing things!" she says, affectionately bumping her nose against Sable's.

"I like this fact about you. My adorable, precious Esme."

Down she sits in a comfy office chair at one of the desks, Esme still in her lap.

"So. I should probably explain all my various capabilities, and the various things I can currently grant, or work up to granting, and how wishes work, and what exactly I'm doing to the world."

She nestles cozily.

"Please do! Can I take notes?"

"You absolutely may. What sort of notebook would you like, and what writing supplies?"

"Hmm, can I just step over to my desk for a moment to grab a notebook and pen?"

"Absolutely."

It opens its arms and lets her down from its lap, then opens a portal directly there. "You can even take the quick way if you wish."

"Thanks!"

She kisses Sable on the cheek, steps through the portal, and grabs a pen with a little cat face on the cap (complete with little molded plastic ears) and a spiral-bound notebook with a soft blue-green gradient on the cover.

"You are absurdly cute, and every moment I get to witness this brightens my life immeasurably," she replies on seeing her selections, and gestures around at the abundance of desk space, standing up from her chair.

(She's probably going to pace a bit.)

She sits down, deploys her writing supplies, and listens attentively.

"Okay, capability overview or history and accomplishments first?"

"How about, history of your accomplishments including your capabilities and how you came to understand them over time?"

"Okay!" It claps excitedly and starts pacing. "So, when I first appeared, I knew nothing about humanity. I was a strange, writhing mass of ink emerging from the Mississippi river that had never even heard of spoken language, full of inexplicable sourceless knowledge about various things. I figured out pretty quick that humans were tool users, but had no idea how they were communicating for the first little while of observation. I scared the first person to see me, and stuck to hiding after that. A bit of telepathy revealed the existence of spoken language, and then a series of longer, deeper scans let me copy English from a few different people, along with some explanation for the wildly varying range of physical presentations people had and what those meant. So I took a look at the range of easily accessible shapes I could occupy, noticed that the easy and comfy ones were all feminine, and decided okay, clearly I fit humanity's 'girl' category. I practiced shifting clothes a few times to make sure I could manage well enough, and then started trying to occasionally interact and learn more."

It grins at her. "Honestly I think I did a pretty good job for being a couple weeks old by the end of that."

"Most people who are a couple weeks old do not have the ability to speak English or dress themselves!"

"Yeah! I was cheating massively with telepathy every chance I got, but to borrow a human saying I like a lot, cheating is technique."

She turns and keeps going. "So a couple months of intermittent conversations go by before I run into my first mugging. One human was pointing a gun at another human and demanding possessions. I didn't like it, just judging by the fear and stress on both of them, but I didn't know enough to know where to intervene, so I just read their minds deeply and waited. That led to figuring out crime and harm, and I decided a mugger was a tolerable test subject for a few of my less-dangerous capabilities. By that point I'd identified most of my basic abilities — pretty broad mind control and telepathy, biomancy, portals, reshaping landscapes, acquiring biological capabilities by eating things — in isolation and with a little animal testing, but I needed to figure out memory and society a bit better, and see how the safer things worked on humans. So I captured the mugger with a portal, used another portal to put the victim's stolen property back at their house, and started testing."

"Poking at the mugger's memories quickly led to figuring out economic conditions and desperation, and that kind of pissed me off. So I resolved to start trying to meddle. I read a bunch of books, figured out how human education worked, copied stuff from a bunch of sociology and economics students, and came to the conclusion that the root of the problem was scarcity, and I'd need to move slowly and make sure humanity had 'normal' explanations for everything I did. I started with just the one city, and tried to encourage homes to be built, and businesses not to pollute, and everyone to discriminate less."

She keeps pacing, tapping into a hand with a tentacle as she explains. "This is when I first had a chance to really use my dream magic. Whenever a business leader or a politician was trying to push for a policy that would harm people, I gave them a dream of the experience on the bottom of that change, to shake them up and discourage them. It took a little practice, but I got pretty good at little nudges."

It turns and grins at her, cheeks faintly purple. "And this is when I first got exposed to sex. When I didn't have much practice yet, I had to visit people in the night to make sure I gave the right person the dream I'd crafted, and so I wound up accidentally observing humans fucking a few times. That was a bit of a revelation, because it turns out I have a whole mess of sex-relevant powers that I didn't even notice until I'd worked out that sex was a thing. Didn't play with 'em at that point. That was later, I figured out that humans go to bars to find opportunities for sex and quickly worked out that I've got bodily fluids that glow in the dark, aphrodisiac fluids, a toggleable lust aura, an intuitive ability to read people's kinks and desires, an awful lot of bodily elasticity and the ability to share that with people, control of sensitivity, ability to induce endless pleasure without orgasm or orgasms on demand, and passive sexual healing. I had a lot of sex. It didn't really solve the lingering loneliness I still had, because I couldn't get emotionally close to people, but it was a lot of fun."

"That is a very fun list of sex powers, I have to say," she says when she finishes copying them down.

"It really is, isn't it?" She teases.

"To get into why I couldn't get close to people, and why I'm still stealthy, the other major power I have is a certain kind of minor precognition. I can figure out the likely outcome of an action if I care about the question a lot. And every time I considered being open about what I am, my outcome-sense sounded metaphorical alarms. So I do everything very sneakily. There's the possibility of using accelerated time to do things, but that's very expensive to keep going for any length of time. So I stick to operating in secret, and have a lot of sex."

"A couple years into this is about when I discover trans people," it continues. "This is something I'm very proud of, to this day."

It twirls and gestures grandly. "So picture it. I'm picking up a girl at a bar, and we're walking off somewhere private, and she nervously says she's trans, and asks if that's okay. I've never heard of this before at this point, so I just copy everything she knows about it. And that kind of blows my mind a bit."

"People wanting different bodies, different pronouns, different social roles! It's fascinating! It's great! Humans actually creating their own roles rather than sticking with what they're given! As a shapeshifter, and a being that learned everything about society by stealing knowledge from normal people, I love the idea."

"Now, I still wanted to get laid, and I didn't want to leave the poor girl hanging, so I nodded and smiled and and pulled her into a soft kiss. We proceeded to have a great night. And the next morning I started trying to figure out whether anything I had was sharable. Revealing myself was still getting a big warning from my powers, so I couldn't use my biomancy to transition people, since that takes time. One of my lunar powers, though, gives me different default 'set points' for my shapeshifting based on the phase of the moon, and I figured I might be able to work out how to grant that."

It claps its hands. "That took a lot of practice. For the first long while, I was stuck on trying to grant it at all, and then I was stumped on how to give just a single shape rather than a whole cycle of them. But eventually I worked it out, and appeared to that same trans girl in a dream. I offered her a contract, let her pick one of those shapes, and for the other wishes updated some documentation and tweaked some memories for her, so people wouldn't make trouble for her about it."