So the secret all along was doing a whole bunch of small things with extreme precision in all of them. In the aggregate it adds up to amazing results! . . .
Or does it? I wonder if that's the story Ilyan tells all his apprentices to throw them off, and his real secret is yet another layer deep, hidden so well, even the story's narrator doesn't know it!
So the secret all along was doing a whole bunch of small things with extreme precision in all of them. In the aggregate it adds up to amazing results! . . .
Or does it? I wonder if that's the story Ilyan tells all his apprentices to throw them off, and his real secret is yet another layer deep, hidden so well, even the story's narrator doesn't know it!
Maybe Twigly was right all along . . . maybe Ilyan just bribes his customers?
Or does the broken mirror on his shelf hypnotize them into forgetting any ill side-effects?
Will we ever know?