Bring on the Magic

‘It’s no good. We have no capital. We have to close at the end of the month.’

‘How much magic do we have?’

‘We can only afford one more wish.’

‘But what if we used our wish to buy more magic?’

‘That seems a possibility. Bring in Miss Tinker-Tangle.’

‘Miss Tinker-Tangle, we need to buy some more wishes. How much will it cost?’

‘Well the price of each wish must be in keeping with inflation if you would still like me to remain on retainer. But since the last one, there hasn’t been an increase. What would you like?’

‘We would like to wish for more money.’

‘You do understand that if I suddenly added money to your account, there would be an inquiry as to where it came from? And there would also be an inquiry if I duplicated gold. The only way around this would be for me to duplicate piles of cash. And since the serial numbers would be duplicated as well, you would have to pay the cash into different banks so that they wouldn’t immediately realise that the notes had been duplicated.’

‘Very well, make it so.’