The Lamp

Long ago, in an Arabian cave there sat a lamp atop a stalagmite pedestal which poked up from the fragmented floor. The cavernous crevices dripped steres of pointed spires, drooling chalcedony stalactites from its weeping pours. The lamp was made of hematite and embossed with onyx letters, which read: "Hidden Inside." Locked inside the jet black lamp was a djinn; a race of beings made of smoke who dwell in the aether between dark and light. The lamp was oozing a stench which filled the cave with thick smog as the genie trapped inside screamed to be free and arisen, waiting to be released from his enchanted prison. For before he was captured, he granted but one wish to a greedy boy who did not want anyone else to be granted three wishes, so he wished to be the only being to be granted a wish. After his selfish wish, the genie vanished forever, imprisoned in a lamp in a cave.