Because sometimes people with that amount of power and influence get too bored for our good or their own, either. [ She'd seen a few examples of that, from time to time. The own lax nature of what power she'd held in her own home world was only something she'd recently come to know from a view point outside of her own talking to Vincent - well, and in every time she'd been shown just how little power she'd had when someone had wanted to withhold from her. That, however, was a story for another day. ]

No, not before today, at least. [ But, again, not a bad thing. She can't help her amusement, thought as she says she's a magician. That's apparently a real thing? ]

So you practice slight of hand. [ Simple as that, right? Sounds like child's play to her, and maybe something she'll have to shove Pino at her to distract the little autoreiv for long enough to get her brains back about her. ]

You'd be surprised how twisted people can be, when they want to be.. Either way, staying in this one stop only does whoever is doing the killing an advantage.