"You may view them as parlour tricks, but this venerable one has not seen their like before," he answered straight faced. And it was true. He had not spent much time around mortals so he had no way of knowing that this was a common method of entertaining among them. And being an immortal who could, normally, do all that Lyney had done with actual magic, he'd never had reason to learn that it could be done without.

"You will teach this venerable one."