"I'll see if you can avoid getting your secret identity revealed, if that'll help? I imagine going by a fake name would get really old, really fast."

"Yes. Quite. And I mean, what happens if they do figure it out, and figure out I escaped probation by lying?"

"I mean, you could always flee the country if they find out, or explain that you didn't know when you were seventeen, but - yes, fair. It's a bit of a risk."

"Mmm. Well, I guess if I'm going to another country afterwards anyway, it doesn't much matter."

"It might make the Protectorate dislike you more, especially if the Wards feel betrayed. Or it could show them why they might like you, and even if you're technically a fugitive, they'd give you more leeway. And they might figure out your weaknesses if you spend a lot of time with them in close quarters, which could make it easier for them to keep you from leaving. It doesn't matter too much, but it does a bit, I think."

"How did you figure it out, anyway?"

"Well there's not many words 'Glam' can stand for, and you were using fairies in your prank. Because of my wings a little girl called me a fairy, and I went and looked up what those are, and read assorted lore surrounding them. Glamours included. Plus with the bizarre focus on attention instead of things that would directly help you - it sort of didn't make sense for you to do those things if getting a good rep wasn't the goal of it, and I had to think of why it would be useful. ... Plus you were really obvious with the 'You probably think you can beat me' and 'I can totally teleport' lines. You think I can't tell when someone's trying to mess with my perceptions?"

"...yeah, using the fairies was probably not a good move. And. The other things."

"I mean, to be fair, no one else has caught you yet, so you're not doing terribly. According to Legend they've gone through a lot of suspicions on how your power works. But - yeah, the fairies was probably not a good move. And neither is being too obvious about messing with people's perceptions."

"I didn't think I was that obvious! ...but yeah, maybe need to work on that."

"I think you might be better off showing, instead of telling. Can you make things disappear when people don't expect them to do so?"

"Yeah, making things disappear is a free action."

"So, make things disappear in an obvious manner, and then remake them where someone wasn't looking, and laugh maniacally and go, 'Behind you.'"

"Ooh, yes, nice!"

"I haven't been consistently doing anything, other than making stuff appear, although I often do that behind the scenes, too."

She nods. "Fair enough. ... You should do one thing where you're acting like a stereotypical stage magician."

"Perfect, I love it."

Their cape turns black and they have a cane. "There should be a giant bunny."

"That starts tiny from when you pull it out of your hat, and grows bigger as time goes on."

"Right! There should be card-trick related thingamajibs, too, and—well, I'll need to watch more magician shows."

"Tell people to check behind their ears, put a quarter there, have it explode in containment foam."

"Hah! But I'm not sure I can do that. Part of the reason I tell people about stuff is that, well, passive expectation works against me, as well. I don't have quite the rep that anything's possible, yet, so people don't know to just expect anything."

"I think if you're working with a stereotype it'll help with that. People expect magicians to pull quarters from behind their ears, you know? And if you're acting like one, they might just check. But - yeah, bit risky."