The young man proceeded to do it and behold, a few thousand Naira lay there. The crowd shouted and began to clap.
I couldn't believe my eyes, I touched Leo, and he touched me back and laughed.
The magician asked the guy to take the money. Next he asked the young man to lift all the cartons, and he did, one after the other and they were empty, we all saw it.
Then he said, “I'll make a snake appear under one of the cartons.”
After saying that, he made another incantation, moved around and touched each carton with his staff as he did before after which he said, “lift the cartons.”
By the time she woke up, I was done with her dress, which seemed like it was taking an eternity to make, her mother was also back to pick her up as it was evening time. I held up her dress, and her sleepy eyes now widened in surprise,
"Wow!" she exclaimed, her eyes shining with amazement. "You did magic!"
I smiled, almost choking with the water in my mouth as I drank to quench the taste of a tiring day's work, also pleased that she was impressed with her birthday dress's final outcome.
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Then, lying on the couch by the window, I wept in front of the cold, undisturbed glow of the moon. Its glare was unusually intense and reached out to be an uncomfortable spectator of my suffering in that vast empty room. “Where is everybody?” I repeated to myself several times.
After I was nearly hopeless from crying, I was startled by the metallic ringtone of my cell phone.
With barely any strength, I stood up and took a few steps until I picked it up off the floor. I didn't even bother to find out who was calling and answered, still sniffling.
“Hi, Maurice, I'm going to stop by and pick up the kids,” said a female voice.
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