It was a trick, had to be. Noam knew this would happen. Sacha was just trying to sow the seeds of doubt. Make Noam distrust Lehrer, or at least doubt him. He knew that. And it was working. Was that kind of thing even possible? Magic was . . . you had to understand whatever you were trying to do. Like physics. But mind control? What the hell would that even involve? An understanding of . . . of human psychology?
