The amulet never leaves your neck on the way home - it even passes through the airport metal detectors without a blip. You discover that its mark is becoming ever more prominent on your skin, and as it does, your strange new powers increase in potency. You find that you're able to read people's thoughts as well as influence them, and that when you tire of the constant attention that your new beauty attracts, it's easy enough to put up a "shield" that makes people look right past you.
Your new-found wealth allowed you to bump up to first class, and so you find the flight back to be far more comfortable than the flight in was. Everything is just perfect, or at least it would be if it weren't for the snotty little bitch of a stewardess. Her motto seems to be "service with a scowl" and she's really getting on everyone's nerves.
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