He sat in the quietest corner of the mental hospital, facing a blank wall, and elegantly performed the “greatest vanishing act of the century,” which the entire magic world had spent three years trying to solve.
People called him Patient No. 7. His medical records were filled with diagnoses such as “delusional performance personality,” “dissociation from reality,” and “severe hallucinations.” The doctors tried their best to analyze every one of his “rants,” from making the moon disappear to stuffing an entire city into a hat.
They failed to notice that those “symptoms” corresponded precisely to the dates of his three legendary magic performances. And when the world’s top magicians finally followed the clues to the mental hospital, trembling as they pushed open its doors, ready to expose the century’s greatest hoax…
he was in the recreation room, using crumbs from his afternoon tea biscuits to show his fellow patients how to “steal” the Atlantic Ocean.
