Amy steps back on the pottery wheel, still tiny and gasps "no, that doesn't sound safe even if I can't die, I don't want to be turned into nothing." but she walks across the surface of the pottery wheel "you know, this is cool, and my form I could actually work myself into some neat shapes, but I can't be in two places at once" Genie smiles "You can.....I can send you back in time so you can actually be the artist and the clay." Amy looks up at her "I thought you couldn't change the past. But as you say this, full sized you, as your human self walks in and smiles "Correct, everything that is about to happen to you, already happened to me so we are not changing the past. I'd ask if you trust me but you are me, and I know you're excited to get to try this, even if your first time through is just as the clay." Tiny pink Amy walks over to the center of the wheel, growing a bit larger to be an appropriate amount of material, looking up. "From your smile, I bet this is as much fun as I think it will be" And the other Amy nods and reaches down, turning on the spinning wheel just as tiny clay Amy turns herself into a blob of clay, losing all definition. Amy reaches out and uses her hands to shape and mold the clay...her own self, expertly shaping it, and dipping her hands into water to alter the consistency of her former self. Genie watches and smiles "You are really good at this" Amy smiles "Yeah, paint and clay are my favs though I wish...excuse me, not an actual wish at the moment" laughing at herself "I want to get into glass blowing sometime, and that may be an actual wish I make down the road. But right now I need to concentrate on me not making a mess of me....though from what you told me when you sent me back in time, everything I am about to do I already did and can't change" Genie smiles and nods "For a rather complicated subject, you understand it quite well mistress. You know what will happen, but that version of you" gesturing to the spinning mass on the wheel that is looking like a tall cylinder, maybe a vase "has no idea...neither do I actually but your skill is apparent" Amy nods and goes back to work, shaping the other version of herself forming her into a tapered container, a pitcher. Stopping the wheel she adds a handle to the pitcher, using left over bits of her other pink self, with quite a bit of her smeared onto the human Amy's hands. Once done it is a nice pitcher, beautifully formed. "Ok, now to fire it...her...me, you know what I mean" The version of Amy that had just been sculpted is a little worried, if she is baked in that oven, it would turn clay to porcelain....but obviously it won't kill her, though she wonders how she would change forms if her flexibility is baked out of her? But she trusts herself so remains in the form she had been sculpted as the oven door shuts, sealing her in. Amy sets the controls and sits back "This almost feels cruel.... she is worried that being baked will change her to porcelain and has no idea that is exactly what I am doing to her, to me." Amy turns to Genie "Ok, after she is fired perfectly, I am going to sell her to a local museum. She will be on display for 20 years, but a storm will damage the museum then. When that happens, I wish you to restore her to being human from the damaged pitcher she will be at the time, and send her...well me, back in time to when I came through that door." Genie gasps and looks at the oven "You had me trap my mistress for 20 years? How could you do that to yourself?" Amy laughs "I will have you ask me when we take her out of the oven, but believe me, I loved it, I was beautiful, delicate, far and away the best piece I had ever made and being the pretty, displayed, admired, it was wonderful. Easily the best 20 years of my life, even that means I am technically now in my mid 40s" and Amy winks at Genie who does a double take and then smiles "I knew I liked you as a mistress." Amy gestures and heads up to her apartment with the front room doubling as her display studio with clay pieces, paintings. "I always loved art and spending 20 years is hasn't changed my opinion much...heck I toyed with the idea of having you turn me into the Mona Lisa and send me all the way back to when I was painted" Genie turns "If I did that you would be trapped for hundreds of years as a mere painting" Amy smiles "not a mere painting, the most admired and well known painting of all time. But no. I love making art and would only want to become art if I made me myself, like that version of Amy baking downstairs." Looks at her watch "She'll be firing for another three hours, then another two to cycle and cool down...want to go get some coffee?" And Amy smiles slyly as Genie is about to answer "You already know the answer, don't you?" Amy giggles yes, but not to everything the next 20 years...when we take me out of the kiln, you mention that you really enjoyed coffee since its your first time having it" and she laughs, pausing "Oh, Genie I wish you were wearing modern clothes instead of that harem dancer attire. As Genie changes her clothes Amy says:
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