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[coin_tricks]

The coins didn't look like any coins he'd ever seen before, but they were still coins, and Shadow didn't have any of his own. He'd found one under a pile of blankets in the closet in his room, and the other he'd found in the grass near the lake. One was gold and rough around the edges, and the other was large and silver and heavy. It almost felt

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[mend_and_defend]

The blue-skinned man sitting at the bar spots a flash of silver and gold out of the corner of his eye, and turns to watch.

[coin_tricks]

Shadow grins as he sees the blue man watching him. He takes an empty cup from beside him and puts a napkin on the top of it. Then he holds up the coins, the gold first, then the silver, and he makes it look like they go through the napkin, and into the glass.

There is clinking, and when he lifts up the napkin, he points the glass towards the blue-skinned man to show the coins sitting in the bottom of the glass.

[mend_and_defend]

"How are you doing that?" the man asks curiously.

[coin_tricks]

'I can't say.' Shadow says, solemnly, flicking the silver coin upwards and grabbing it, then showing it to be the gold one as he brings his hand down. 'A magician never reveals his secrets.'

He's getting the bubbly feeling that comes with a sucessful performance in front of people who aren't children. He smiles widely.

[jack_f_twist]

It's kind of neat, watching the gold flick-and-shine of coin before it disappears again, turning into the big silver one and Jack, sitting in that spot on the couch that had used to be his usual haunt, grins. He can't really help it.

"'S a neat trick."

[coin_tricks]

'Thanks.' Shadow smiles. 'But I'm an amateur, really.'

He takes the gold coin and flicks it across his knuckles, then as the coin flips between his ring finger and his pinky, he turns his hand over and it's the silver coin that he flicks across the underside of his fingers. He turns his hand again, and the gold coin flips across his knuckles.

[jack_f_twist]

"Still better'n me."

He lifts a hand with a cigarette burning between two hands, and grins, showing slightly big teeth and two deep dimples and the lazy Wyoming drawl is sort of the verbal equivalent of his slouch. Using the cigarette like an extra finger, he points at the coin still appearing and disappearing across the other fella's knuckles. "Where'd you pick that up?"

[coin_tricks]

Shadow grins, inclining his head acceptingly.

It's an awkward question, because of the answer. Shadow hesitates, and then decides that he might as well be honest, because lying's never really gotten him that far. 'In prison.' He says, shortly.

[wellthrownstone]

A little boy sitting on his father's thigh watches with wide eyes and deep fascination.

[coin_tricks]

Shadow grins. Performing for children is fun. He holds a napkin out in front of him, places the gold coin in the middle of it, then closes the napkin over it.

Shadow adjusts the napkin a bit, then opens it to show the kid the coin, still in the middle. He folds the coin into the napkin again and begins twisting the bottom of it. He holds one corner of the napkin, and lets it fall open. The coin, surprisingly, doesn't fall to the floor.

Then he reaches over, and pulls the gold coin out of seemingly empty air. He shows it to the kid and grins.

[impulsivekid]

"Oh, wow, cool!"

The kid in the super suit is staring with awe.

"How'd you do that?"

[coin_tricks]

Shadow grins and does it again, changing the silver coin back into the gold one.

'It's magic.'

[impulsivekid]

"So sweet!"

Bart shrugs, absently.

"I've never had the time to figure it all out."

[coin_tricks]

[ooc: sorry for the long delay, technical difficulties...]

'I had a couple of years.' Shadow says, looking at the coins in his hand and remembering when they would have been blank discs of dull metal. 'I was in prison.'