The audience holds its breath.

(Not really, but they're interested.)

He freezes briefly after pulling it out, but then tentatively says the (stupid) phrase to make it into a staff.

Staff!

People oooh and aah.

Theo goes a little pale.

He gets the Fly out of his bag and says its name as he taps it.

It glows. His staff glows. His staff grows wings. The audience ooohs again, and this is in fact quite impressive, especially the way the wings look so real.

He shivers a little, scratches the back of his neck, but moves to stand astride the staff.

"… Please don't kill me," he says softly, to the staff.

And then he kicks off.

The staff fails to kill him. It merely makes him fly. As it usually does.

Cameras follow him!

He realises he probably looks extremely panicked. He tries to stop that.

It doesn't really work too well.

Tyler sighs.

He's high enough people can't really notice.

And then, after he feels he's probably done enough – it wasn't really that long, but there was still some of a flight – he returns and lands.

There is a lot of applause, and the crowd has grown rather a lot.

"Now, does anyone else want to give it a go?" she asks the audience.

A kid ducks past through, past the people at the front of the crowd, and runs towards Theo. He tries to grab the staff.

Theo has no idea what to do except to hold the staff out of reach, for now. "Uh, do we – I think we need to wait for your parents?"

"Yeah let's."

No parents seem to be forthcoming! A couple of teenagers seem like they might want to try out the flight, though.

Okay the teenagers can try but first—" Where are your parents?" she asks the kid.

"Oh, they're in, um, Boots? But can I just go please please please?"

"If you call them here you can, but I'm not sure they'll be very happy with you if you get hurt because you didn't wait for them."

Pout.

He turns to face Theo and says, "You're mean."

… Theo honestly has no idea what to do with this.

The teenagers can probably fly, though.

So Theo lets them on it, keeping away from the kid who seems tempted to try jumping on.

He looks less nervous, waiting for them on the ground. Still some.

The audience is... a bit more uncertain of its awe, seeing people who are not part of this literally fly.

"Try to do something I couldn't have planned for if this was a hoax!" she calls.

The teenagers are a little busy – shouting rather gleefully, in one case, with the other one holding on for not-quite-dear-life.

After a few moments, though, they pass over the crowd uncertainly.