That day wasn't anything special. Ted spent his evening leisurely browsing imageboards, checking some usual threads. But one of them somehow picked his interest.

"Huh, a Monkey Paw thread. 'Post your wish, and the reply will grant it to you, but with some kind of twist.' Let's see what other people wished for."

The thread was full of different kinds of wishes, from somewhat ordinary, like having a power of hypnosis, to weird and horny, like turning oneself into a sexually attractive slime. After scrolling through all posts, Ted decided to post his own little wish, just to see what kind of reply he will get.

The post he wrote reads "I wish I could harmlessly detach any girl's feet, so I can have a home collection of living feet from every of my female friend for aesthetic and horny reasons." After about 15-20 minutes, the reply appeared: "Granted, but 'harmlessly detach' also means that the girls in question can still walk around as if they had feet, floating slightly above ground. Also, sometimes you'll find cute living feet in your house that you don't remember getting. And then they start moving around when you sleep..."

"Wow, they decided to go quite easy on me. Not like it will ever happen."

After a few more hours spent in the internet, he shut down his laptop and went to bed.

On the next morning, after waking up, Ted went to the bathroom, but when he opened the door, he saw something he wasn't ready for. Right on the top of the washing machine, there was a pair of feet, slowly wiggling their toes. Ted quickly closed and opened the door - they were still there. He tried to pinch his cheek.

"No, I am definitely not dreaming... I thought it was just a silly 'haha' kind of thread."

He takes a closer look of the feet. They were size 6, pale, had little stubby toes and no nail polish. Somehow, Ted recognised that pair - it was July's, one of his female friends. But the thing is, she lived in another city more than 300 miles from here. After some hesitation, he picked the feet up. Skin of the soles was somewhat dry, but still rather nice to touch. Ted tries to tickle the them, but the feet just lazily scrunched their toes, like they were more annoyed than amused.

"Well, July isn't very ticklish, so that just confirms it once more. Now I need to try the 'detachment' part of my wish."

He unlocked his phone and looked through his text messages for his female friends who were more accepting about showing him their feet. He quickly stumbled upon first one - Ann.

"Nice, she even lives rather closely. Time to pay her a visit."

Ted texted Ann to arrange a meeting, she gladly agreed and invited him to her apartment. When he arrived, a very beautiful girl opened the door and let Ted inside. Ann always looked more like a porcelain doll than a human - she had short platinum hair, green eyes, pale white skin, she also was a little taller than Ted and very slim. Her hands had pretty long fingers too due to playing piano a lot, but that solidified her pure and delicate looks even more. She was a composer, so she did not live poorly. The apartment was very tidy, at times even too much. Huge amount of white furniture makes it even more noticable, from the snow-white leather sofa, to the marble grand piano in the center of the guest room.

"So, your message said that you, apparently, learned a cool trick of sorts, right?"

"Yes, but it's very specific."

"And how so?"

"It works only on feet, so it will be much easier for me if you take of your socks."

"Ah, yes, sure, I don't mind. I was ready for something stupidly overcomplicated, like 'we can only perform in under the light of dying moon'."

After that, Ann peeled off her white lace socks and put her legs on Ted's lap, revealing to him her bare feet. Somehow, her feet were very similar to her hands - slim size 9 with equally long toes, they looked perfectly kept, even without nail polish. The skin of her soles was so silky smooth, Ted always thought it would be very comfortable to use her feet as a pillow.

"Okay. I think I need to grab the it like that, and..."

Ted tried to twist Ann's right foot clockwise. Even though she was rather flexible, he worried a little when it turned to very unnatural angle, hoping he wouldn't hurt her. But after a full twist, Ann's right foot came off her leg without any resistance. The girl watched all of that in awe.

"This is unreal! You definitely playing some mind tricks on me, aren't you?"

"This is your foot, I can even tickle it to prove you..."

"No need, I'm not that ticklish there. Just give it to me for a second."

Ann took her right foot and started to inspect it. There was no gory mess, instead the foot ended with a little skin stump, like it was always there. After that, she thought about flexing her toes, and they immediately responded. She also slide her finger across her sole to see if she felt everything, and she did. While Ann were doing all that, Ted used that time to repeat the process on her left foot.

"You sneaky rascal, you had already done with my other foot!"

Ann laughed and gave Ted her right foot.

"And that's all? That's the whole trick?"

"Not exactly. Try to walk without them."

Ann tried to get up from the couch, expecting to stand on her new stumps. To her surprise, she instead floats a little over the ground, almost like her feet were never taken.

"So even that part of reply was granted."

"What was that?"

"Nothing important. How do you feel?"

"Absolutely amazing! Walking is for common folk now, hehe!"

Ann returns to the couch.

"You know what? You can even take my feet with you. Like, I know you like them since you asked me for a video where I wiggle my toes. Sometimes, I think you need them more than me. So, as a humble present, you can keep my feet!"

Ted was flattered, but also somewhat concerned.

"But what about a piano? Don't you, like, need to press some pedals?"

"Hm... You have a point. Let me try this then."

Ann floated towards the piano. She started to play it like normal, while Ted was worried until she tried to press the pedal. To his suprise, even without foot there, Ann managed to do it without noticing and finish playing a song. He sighed with relief.

"Well, that answers a question. From this point onwards, my feet are yours!"

She applaudes, while feet in Ted's hands happily wiggled their toes. After spending some more time together, Ann kissed goodbye on his cheek and wished him a safe trip. On Ted's way home, his new pet feet moved in backpack like playful little kittens.