I drove home, checked for messages, popped in
the old frozen dinner and opened up the Amateur Magician’s
Handbook.
Tonight I was determined to teach myself a
trick that I had long wanted to relearn, "the
cut-and-restored rope" trick. This was one of the tricks
that I had done in the talent show so many years ago, but couldn’t
begin to remember how. Maybe I would get a chance to show it to
Max Vi tomorrow. As thoughts about the magician entered my mind,
I couldn't help thinking about the eerie elevator incident.
"Nothing will happen unless you make
it happen." Thinking that the voice sounded somehow
familiar to me, I tried to place it. Was it the magician? It was
Maximillion Vi – I knew it.
