“Thank thank, you’ve been a wonderful audience!” she exclaimed from her raised perch near the fountain in the city square. For my last feat of mystery and wonder I will need a volunteer from the crowd. Anyone anyone…. you there come on up.”

“Thank you for your help, there’s a copper in it for you to be sure. Now if you’ll allow me to demonstrate,” she said steadily. “Again I have no magical abilities, I am just incredibly perceptive….”

The street magician looked into her subject’s eyes and concentrated. “By simply looking into your eyes I will divine aspects of your life that could not possibly be known to me, a stranger you are seeing for the first time.”

After a few seconds of tense silence the street magician jumped back exclaiming, “Behold! Your life is laid bare before you, myself, and this lovely audience who are very generous with their coin! Let us see what we have seen…”