In fact, there had never been a full rehearsal of the act, even back at the workshop; their rehearsals had never been taken as far as the decapitation. Tomorrow would be the first time, it could still go horribly wrong and Charlie could end up on a manslaughter charge. Certainly publicise the show though, he could almost see the newspaper headlines, Magician decapitates assistant on stage.
They had worked hard the previous weeks. Every morning Selene would appear in the workshop, from whence she came, how she came, he did not know. Some kind of diabolic underground system, the Satan line perhaps, direct from Hell via Devils Corner, and Lucifer Grove as other imaginary names of Satan line stations based on London Underground names tumbled into Charlie's agile mind like leaping trout, 'how
