Piercing Gaze, the Baltimare impresario and owner of the Hippodrome Theatre, expected to do record business during the Summer Sun Celebration, when he could draw in crowds until the dawn. He did not expect the night to last well into the morning. At least all this trouble was taking his mind off his memories of a certain little blue magician ...

Side-story to An Extended Performance.

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