Mass Panic

I could *do* anything, *know* anything and go anywhere in the universe. *What shall be the first **real** test?* I wondered to myself. I walked to a window and looked out onto the neighborhood. "I think I'll make the sky ... *pink*." Suddenly the sky turned a bold pink color. People working on their lawns looked up at the sky with wide eyes. Cars stopped in the streets and their drivers gaped at the new sky, causing a traffic jam. *Hmm,* I thought. *It doesn't seem to change everyone's memories like the stone does.* I walked to the TV and changed the channel to a news program. The top story was the sky's sudden shift of color. Apparently, it was causing a mass panic ... worldwide. Suddenly, I wasn't as interested in being all powerful. I didn't want to start a mass panic. But maybe I could fix that. Maybe I could *make* people think the sky was supposed to be pink. I was omnipotent, right? I could do anything I wanted. But would it be the right thing to do?