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"This
time, Joe raised both arms, shouted something, and a wind began to stir—not
much at first but it became stronger until it almost knocked Hank off his feet.
“Christ, what is that?” Hank turned around expecting to see damage, but there
wasn’t any anywhere. “I thought…”
By
the time Joe answered, there was no wind at all. “You thought it was real.”
“It
felt real!”
Joe
smiled. “The power of suggestion and possibly some magic, too. Let’s see—how
about something really spectacular?”
Once again, he waved his arms and said
something, and animals started to appear. Hank clapped his hands like a child.
It was fantastic! Mice and squirrels, small dogs, kittens, but then—! Then
suddenly, there were huge animals.
Hank’s mouth dropped open when the elephant
appeared. A big, fucking elephant wearing a pink headdress and everything.
“Queenie!
Trick!” Joe ordered.
The
elephant obeyed that command and stood up on her hind legs. Hank looked on in
amazement because it didn’t stop there. There was also an elephant handler to
keep his charge in line.
And
if that was incredible, there was more. Suddenly, cages full of snarling wild
cats, including menacing lions and a lion tamer lined up in front of them.
Hank
nearly ran from it all, but Joe said the lion tamer had everything under
control. “Oh sure, kid. He’s as real as the animals. This ain’t no magic; this
is conjuring—only it ain’t trickery, it’s real conjuring.”
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