"Considering how much the person was trying to hide from my business persona, I am willing to bet an amount equal to the worth of the Jiffy-Pop brand on this being a poorly worded front for something else entirely."<br/><br/>Tap, tap goes the finger upon the counter. "But it was intended to appear as though he had made pacts with several spirits and to keep their favor needed to get others to make offerings to those spirits. However his explanation, to me, flew across so many different schools of thought about magic that I can not see this person as anything more than a fraud. No three lodges would split things so even, much less the five that his explanation required."<br/><br/>"Now I offer it to you as I have full confidence in your ability to run like the wind when the lies inevitably come crashing down upon the client's ears."