"Stop being cute so we can do some magic."

"Yes sir," he laughs.

"Great. So what's this about a script?"

"We have charisma, we should use it. Charisma, let's talk about what you're going to say." 

"I'm thinking for a specific script I could just play it by ear, see what reactions I'm getting. I'm more interested in having a list of magical things we'll do for sure, which will showcase the impossibility of these tricks, and then if anything cool occurs at the time we can also do that."

"Card tricks are classic, but we don't want to put everyone on screen. The box, the handcuffs, the one with the infinite handkerchiefs? The bunny, but that might be hard...we should probably figure out everything magic can do. I haven't really done any, even though I was planning on it."

"We can definitely make some things appear out of literal thin air—there's the Flower, it does that. And I'm not sure how card tricks could be magicked up."

"So let's make flowers appear, go through the handcuffs and the box- if we don't find anything thin enough we can just skip that. Levitation we can do, and you should probably do a separate trick where you levitate something else."

"Make the flower appear, then change the color of it, then move it?"

"Flowers are small and easy to do. I could ask for volunteers from the audience, more believable that way."

"How big an audience can you handle?"

"I'm a showman."

"Uh huh. So I've provided the handcuffs, but we'll probably want to get the box, that seems harder than a flower."

"There are stores that sell those kinds of props, no?"

"We can check it out, yeah." 

"The Maze is also a pretty cool one to demonstrate but easy to fake in a video."

"You could include it anyway if you think the act isn't complete without it."

"Nah, I just think it's a pretty obviously impossible thing—actually, we could do that just because it is impossible, so anyone—especially other clans—who sees the footage will think it was just edited."

"Good idea. Is there anything else we're missing?"

"I think this should be enough of a skeleton that everything else can be done as needed."

"Let me guess. You'll improvise?"

"Can we not make everything about your sexual tension?"

"—sexual tension?" He looks at Alistair. "There's sexual tension? Should we fix that?"

"I'm not sure we need to give them a show. Should we kick them out?"

"Hmm, as soon as we're sure there's nothing else to plan I'm perfectly comfortable kicking them out and letting you have your way with me."