I didn't preform as a magician. I just learned the tricks to it, to counting cards, making the coin seem like it wasn't even there. It's all just insane amounts of practice and dexterous fingers.
[Quentin had had time, so much time, on his hands. It's not as if he went to parties or anywhere else for that matter. And even though he loved the Fillory books, even he had his limits on how many times in a row he could re-read them.
And so, magic tricks. To impress Julia, who loved magic almost as much as Quentin did. Or she did until puberty hit her hard and she found that there could be more to life than drawing maps of a fictional fairy tale world and watching Quentin make a coin disappear.]
It didn't work, by the way. She wasn't all that impressed by it and it's a horrible way to start a conversation. Hey, do you wanna see a magic trick is just another way to make sure people don't talk to you for the rest of the night.
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[Quentin had had time, so much time, on his hands. It's not as if he went to parties or anywhere else for that matter. And even though he loved the Fillory books, even he had his limits on how many times in a row he could re-read them.
And so, magic tricks. To impress Julia, who loved magic almost as much as Quentin did. Or she did until puberty hit her hard and she found that there could be more to life than drawing maps of a fictional fairy tale world and watching Quentin make a coin disappear.]
It didn't work, by the way. She wasn't all that impressed by it and it's a horrible way to start a conversation. Hey, do you wanna see a magic trick is just another way to make sure people don't talk to you for the rest of the night.