A Fancy Lunch In a Back Alley

CRACK! Arad rested the tree on his shoulder and thought, "I probably need a hat. I've seen mages wear one. Is it for that reason?" He looked toward the clown with a smile.

"What?" the clown gasped as the children rushed to look at Arad's tree, jumping to try and touch it.

Aella approached Arad, "Put the tree away. You're drawing attention," She sighed, patting his shoulder.

"Sorry," Arad lifted the tree up, sucking it back to his stomach in the blink of an eye. He then looked at the clown and smiled, "Thanks for the lesson,"

As Arad and the girls left, leaving everyone baffled. The clown returned to his show, trying to scrap what dignity was left for him as the children urged him to produce a tree as the strange man.

One of the children, a kid stared at Arad from the sidelines, smiling, "That power, and judging by his behavior, he isn't a student of the arcane arts, but born with them. A sorcerer bathed in the raw magic of the world,"