Dedrick looked out at the crowd from backstage and cringed. there were a plethora of nobles in the crowd. even a few children were there. “if we screw up… i can already feel the whip...” he frowned as the announcement that the show was starting was made. he walked on stage and whispered, “good luck, brother…” as he held up his hand to silence the crowd.<br/><br/>“What you are about to see will shock and amaze!” he began. The statement was true, but the emotion behind it was a farce, as he and his brother were both used to this sort of stuff by now.<br/><br/>“I stand before you today for the first time attempting to be encased in a tank of water, my hands and feet bound by chains, and within 30 seconds the tank will fill with acid. If by that time I do not escape, I am, as you know by now, a dead man.” he smirked as the fools gasped and several children went wide eyed. He walked to the tank and got “into” it, when in reality he was behind it and had created an illusion of himself doing so. His copy then chained itself, and the tank soon flooded with acid. The screams of shock filled the room until, using the H2O in the air to appear soaked, he shouted from within the crowd.<br/><br/>“What kind of idiot would do that?”<br/><br/>Everyone turned and went silent as he walked back onstage, and took a bow. Then he vanished in a cloud of mist.<br/><br/>opening his eyes outside, having been using an illusion the entire time to fool his father, he turned and ran. “I don’t give a shit about father. Today Nathaniel and I shall be free.” he muttered, running to where they had agreed to meet once his brother’s act was done as well.