The rest of the night proceeded "normally".. though I suppose normal to me then and normal to another person would differ quite a bit. I managed to make something to eat, offered some to my guest, who spent a minute poking at it before declining, and spent the rest of the night poring over my notes from the interview.
The last thing I truly remember is explaining the intricacies of television and the television remote control to Sul. I don't remember what I dreamed of, nor do I really think it would have been very important. Unless of course it was a brilliant plan to use up the rest of my wishes, but that didn't happen as far as I know. When I awoke, the previous days events were something of a blur, and I fully expected to find that it had all been a food poisoning induced fever dream, but that also was not true.
I truly awoke sometime mid-morning to discover I had used my notepad as a pillow. Sul appeared to have taken on a solid form, a more material human form. Though the D'jinn's manner of dress made determining gender from a glance mostly impossible without a closer look. It had taken on a tan skinned elfin form, angular but feminine facial features, thin eyebrows with crimson hair tied back in a long ponytail complete with long antennae like ears. It was wrapped in a set of light robe like clothing, adding to the confusion of gender identity, and was perched atop the beanbag watching what seemed to be a history channel marathon with the intensity of a wary cat observing a laser dot on a carpet. The D'jinn's eyes flitted in my direction as I sat up, a solid molten red, not like fire, but not human either.
"Your species has been quite busy since my imprisonment, though much of that progress has been made in the last two hundred years."
I nodded blinking sleep from my eyes, finally noticing there was a plate with fresh prepared food sitting beside me. None of which was anything that I recognized as actually having inside my apartment. Rice, and diced pineapple, with cooked eggs and sausage. Finally waking up enough I actually asked about this. "....ok..I know I didn't have this, and I know I didn't have a cable subscription to history channel last night."
"I went out to the nearest bazaar and retrieved some things. The food you had available was either rotted or incredibly toxic....yes I paid. Once I saw some of your currency it was incredibly simple to replicate."
"...toxic food?....ok I'll question that later, and ....know what not going to go into the ramifications of just magicing up money....As for History channel?"
"...you call it electricity..well electrical signals.. it was easy to manipulate and trick the machina you humans have created to harness these powers. It took some prodding but I ended up finding this history channel and it has been most informative."
"Don't take everything it says as fact."
Sul nodded as I poked at the food with a fork. "...that form?"
"Something to make you more at ease, a floating cloud could be considered....intimidating."
"So not what you looked like before?"
"No, I got the idea after watching a....I believe it was a japanese tv show?"
"Most likely.... After I eat shall we continue the interview?"
"If you would like to, I have no issue with that."
I nodded and wolfed down my food, as Sul resumed watching the history marathon, as it covered some obscure bit about the industrial revolution, particularly about some kind of moth and adapting to the ash of the coal plants. As I ate I went over my smudged notes, formulated questions, and attempted to figure out where to go from the night before.
Finally I broke the silence. "There's only one really accepted tale in human history that really covered any major interaction between human an D'jinn. It didn't give the D'jinn's name but the person that met them was called Aladin. I hate to bring something up so cliched, but well.. it's the only thing that really references D'jiin outside of the Quran."
I spent the next few minutes going over a brief synopsis of the tale of Aladdin, not the whitewashed Disney cartoon, but one of the versions that began circulating in the 1700s.
"The transportation from one continent to another, and making castles appear from thin air... are those things D'jinn are capable of? Is that something you yourself are capable of?"
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