Penny in the water makes a ripple effect

Eliana beamed at him, all evidence of her earlier frustration but a whisper of the past. She shook his hand for a good five or six seconds before releasing it.

"Hey, man, no problem. You know, I'm actually pretty used to it. Besides, I was being somewhat stand-offish. There was a little blame for everyone."

Truthfully, Eliana had wished for nothing, because she could never think of something worth wishing for.

At his question, she tried to imagine what she might have wished for, had she not been interrupted in the first place.

"I wished that I understood how wishes worked and why people made them," she said. With Eliana, it was hard to tell if this was the truth or merely a joke, she probably didn't know herself.

"You know, I'm pretty sure if you take the coin out the wish doesn't come true," she said pointedly when he removed one of the coins.

"Has anyone ever told you that you're an odd little boy?" she asked as she gave him a once over. She didn't make it sound like a bad thing, if anything, Eliana was praising him.

"And so is that what you do? Take what you want when you want it?"

It seemed odd to Eliana that he was surprised by her comment. Her first thought was simply: take what you want when you want.

Maybe it was a demon thing, or maybe she was just a bad person. Maybe both?

"And what would determine if someone deserved to be stolen from?" she asked him, still amused. This had turned out to be a much more interesting conversation than she originally thought possible.

"What a very passionate speech, but you don't need to inform me of the intricates on morality." She motioned to herself. "I'm one of those walking examples of people believing I'm evil."

She grinned roguishly, "kind of refreshing to see someone with your thought process, though. Not gonna lie."