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Hello magic fans!!

Allow me, the amazing, the fantastic, the deeply secretive, and other-worldly mysterious magician, Bob, to entertain and delight your puzzler senses and keen deductive capabilities!!

In this short demonstration I will test even your limits of reality and capacity for reason!

In twenty seconds, I’ll not only show you the power of the ancients but, by using nothing short of metaphysical and biological, dark chaos-magic, I will make a bird disappear from your very eyes!!

The question then is–without any hint from me, the master magician and ruler of veiled magics from forgotten continents–can you tell in which hand I’ve placed this sweet bird?