It doesn't quite classify as a trick if the results are real, does it? That kind of magic is all just a subterfuge.
[But perhaps he's being pedantic, and seeing as you're not making jokes at his expense, he relents.]
But I've never requested any further spells, no. At least, not yet. And I suppose I do have a few tricks up my sleeve, but they don't classify as magic. Such as--
[He raises his palm to his lips, bites into the meager flesh there with his eerily pointed teeth until bright beads of blood show around their edges. And then he holds his hand up for the other man to see.
All those little puncture points-- they begin to heal within the blink of an eye, close over with the sizzle and hiss of rising smoke, and in a matter of moments his palm is unblemished as it ever was.]
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[But perhaps he's being pedantic, and seeing as you're not making jokes at his expense, he relents.]
But I've never requested any further spells, no. At least, not yet. And I suppose I do have a few tricks up my sleeve, but they don't classify as magic. Such as--
[He raises his palm to his lips, bites into the meager flesh there with his eerily pointed teeth until bright beads of blood show around their edges. And then he holds his hand up for the other man to see.
All those little puncture points-- they begin to heal within the blink of an eye, close over with the sizzle and hiss of rising smoke, and in a matter of moments his palm is unblemished as it ever was.]