"You're learning what?" Jesper's surprise is more along the lines of excitement. He sits up, disentangling from Wylan to stare down at the boy with wide eyes.

"You did not. So what like tricks or something else?" The streets of Ketterdam were littered with street magicians and charlatans peddling their wares and tricks to every gullible sap and Pidgeon from the Lid down into the depths of the Barrel. But here--here he's seen a hint of magic, not the Small Science, but something more unexplained, almost verging on the impossible.

"Show me."