[mmmm but consider...]

There's a lot of magic in children's stories. I learned a lot that way.

[But hmmn, thinking more abstractly...] I guess it could be...like determination. You do that, you can make your own wish come true. Pfh, that's pretty stupid.

[Much less impressive, even if it's a "nicer" resolution, he mentally gripes as he goes to pop another shrimp in his mouth.]