There was a unseasonable rainy night and this Saturday morning Temperance found herself in need to find a raincoat.
Maybe is in this box? No, those are books. And a ring. She takes the ring to put in a jewelry box. Absently trying it on.
When she out in the rain, she absently extends her hand out. Away from the umbrella's cover. Letting the feeling of raindrops on her skin. She notices that she forgot the ring on, and absently caresses it with her thumb, feeling the combined feeling of metal and water.
In so far she is wishing for anything, it's just a desire to experience and enjoy the moment. Absently wondering if she could get away with running uncovered in the way on the way back. Some people let rainy days ruin their mood. Temperance is not one of those people.
"A wish can be nearly anything that I am powerful enough to provide. While not without limit, I can do a lot. The strict rules are but three: No mind alteration of anybody, means no making people love you directly, or changing the way your mind works. Kind of sucks for people who want to stop being addicted to something and find me, but so it goes. No killing or putting people in situations where they will almost certainly die with wishes - asking for weapons is fine though. And you get three wishes, no more. That means no wishing for more wishes, no wishing for more genies, no wishing about weird mathematical things that make 'three' be defined in some insane troll logic way. Three."
"Very little control over what kind of world. You might land somewhere dangerous, or in some kind of compromising position - like inside a secure area. The travelling might hurt you. Or it might be very obvious to observers that something big and magical happened. No guarantee there's civilization around. Stuff like that."
Temperance nods and sets him up with the laptop and a "seat" made of stacked books to give him a better view of the screen. Then asks about his tastes in movies. Hers are fairly eclectic and include romcoms, adventure fantasy movies and documentaries about the challenges of space colonization.
"I guess it isn't that different from most powerful people - non-magical powerful that is - from history. Still, sorry for your stuckness. I guess wishing to meet a friendly god would be as hard as to find a good world to move into? Or fall under the wishing-for-more-wishes restriction?"
"There's no helping that in the long run. And I don't have - I don't know hard rules or anything, just things about what I can do, and what other sorcerers I've seen can do. I haven't seen one in a long time though, it's been a lot of middle age knights and then 17th century Japanese peasants and middle class bureaucrats and then, you know, the 20th century. Over and over again and then back to middle aged stuff for a while, to the point where I figured out I'm going between worlds, probably."