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"Can you pick any pocket?" Gale asks, a plan coalescing in his mind.
"I am yet to find one safe from my wandering hands," Astarion answers, wandering those hands suggestively through the air. "Why?"
"Can you put things back in pockets?" Astarion looks at him, nonplussed.
"No, why would I want to do that?"Gale was one of the greatest stage illusionists of the Edwardian era, but now he spends his days debunking séances hoping to hear a message from his late partner, Mystra. When the mysterious medium Minthara, Queen of Spiders, invites him to the Estate Party at her country house, Gale cannot resist the chance to reveal her for what he believes her to be: a fraud.
Meanwhile, Astarion has an infernal secret and has spent decades isolating himself from humanity. But when a strange man in a cemetery piques his curiosity, he soon finds himself caught up in a scheme that he is certain will fail. By the time he realises the true danger to himself and to Gale, it is altogether too late.
Because what Gale does not know but Astarion knows all too well is that Minthara has friends in very low places who are not about to let meddling magicians get in their way.