“Why did you offer the position to me?” I asked. “You must have had plenty of other promising magicians at the interview today.” “I did. And yet all of them performed for me, as if they were on a stage. Not a single one engaged me as you did,” he replied. “I confess, Miss Neven, that there was a moment when I thought your intentions were to kill me. And then I realized how absurd that was, and that you were testing me as I wanted to test you. You challenged me as if you were a nightmare on a new moon, and I knew then that you were the one that I wanted beside me.”
