"As much as I'd read about any other interesting topic in my spare time," Gen mused. "Flights on tour, bus and train rides, they all were very long. I went on a lot of wiki crawls to entertain myself when I wasn't working."

He laughed softly too. "Don't be so sure. Yes, I would've been angry if you spilled my secrets for everyone to see. Or if you sold them to a different performer so they could copy my illusions. That would involve a lawyer, I think. But maybe if I'd known you'd figured them out, and you were just ... bragging to me, instead of the entire internet ... I would've been impressed."