Chapter 14: Plotting

Later in the evening, the five guests were called on for another banquet. It seemed that the royal family could not get enough of their magic tricks in so short a time. It was clear enough when the sultan requested them to do it again tonight.

Elise materialized bouquets of flowers for each of the sultan’s wife at the opening of their performance. The ladies gasped in excitement, especially the queen. She beamed widely and picked up the bouquets to smell them.