“Ouu, well la dee da, that sounds fancy.”<\/p>\n
“Sorta. It’s just a beach. Not even a big one really. But it was on my last day there I found this unusual looking stone on the shore.”<\/p>\n
“Unusual how?”<\/p>\n
“It’s… hard to explain. In my hand it looks black but when I first spotted it it was shining with all the colours of the rainbow. I thought it was a trick of the light, like… well, I have this gemstone at home called labradorite that reflects light in this special way that makes it look like there’s a blue light moving around inside of it. It’s really cool. Anyway, I saw this stone gleaming on the edge of the water and I picked it up. But when I did it was just black. I wanted to see its lights again so I decided to take it back to our hotel. But still it didn’t change. Then I took it home with me and put it in my bedroom and kinda just forgot about it for a while.”<\/p>\n
“Okay, so, when did it do, you know… what it did to you?”<\/p>\n
“Oh, that was about three weeks ago. In the middle of the night I woke up to find it glowing, filling my whole bedroom with dancing rainbow coloured lights. And… it was making a sort of humming, pulsing sound. Not very loud, but still a sound. I got up to take a closer look at it and at first I just stared at it. But then I reached out to touch it. I just had to, y’know? That’s when it happened. There was this big flash of light and everything went white. I actually fell down and I guess I must\u2019ve somehow been knocked out because when I opened my eyes again it was early morning. I went back over to the stone but it was just plain black again.”<\/p>\n
“Did you think you’d dreamt the whole thing?”<\/p>\n
“Not really. The thought crossed my mind of course, but the experience was way too vivid to be a dream. Plus, I know I don’t sleepwalk, so how would I have ended up on the floor?”<\/p>\n
“Okay, fair enough. So what did you do next?”<\/p>\n
“What could I do? I got ready for school. It was only when I started my lessons that day that I realised that something was different.”<\/p>\n
“Different, like..?”<\/p>\n
“Like everything was easy. Like, really<\/em> easy. The first lesson was maths and every question had an obvious answer for me. That was odd enough, but then when we started doing history and geography I realised I knew the name of every city in the world, every historical figure, every significant event. I wasn’t just smarter<\/em>, I knew\u2026 well, everything. Everything about everything.”<\/p>\n“No way<\/em>! You’ve gotta be pulling my leg.”<\/p>\n“The origin of the phrase ‘pulling my leg’ is unknown, but it was first mentioned in The Newark Daily Advocate in Ohio in 1883.”<\/p>\n
“…okay, I believe you. A magic stone it is. But none of this explains how you became an instant millionaire.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, well that was actually pretty easy…”<\/p>\n<\/div>
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