Please Welcome to the Stage...

BASTIEN "No, Remi. I called you an assistant. But if you insist on acting so demure and shy I shall have to degrade you to prop." He roughly pushed past the feathers in Remi's hair, years of prepping difficult actors for performances leaving him with little sympathy for difficult knots. Bastien laughed at Remi's insistence he could do 'nothing of the sort'. "I can do it, so you can. It is just a matter of moving things about and hiding others. The reason I need you is that you can do it without your hands." Mirrors and smoke seemed like so much work when there were people with actual magical powers in this place. The things he could have made with such powers in Venice...! "The measurements are just right. If they are wrong, you won't know til it is on, caro. Stand up and take your shirt off." He motioned for Remi to get up impatiently. I'm feelin' like a big bang