Wild Magic Party: Hannah

The party had gone smoothly for Hannah, so far. The guests had, for the most part, been polite and even complimentary of her outfit, which was a coat of paint contrived to resemble a white top under a short and low-cut black dress; meaning that her breasts where painted white, with an outline of black under them and up the sides to suggest shoulder-straps. Gabriel had hinted that she would be called up to be involved in an illusion; which she was looking forward to.

Gabriel began his time on stage be producing a tube and then pulling from the tube a life-size poster of Annika. A stage hand pushed on a box with rollers on the front. Gabriel showed the box to be empty and then fed the poster into the rollers and turned the handle on the rollers, causing Annika to emerge from the top. The unexpected part of this was that he fed the picture in feet-first, so Annika emerged feet-first; initially her legs were covered by her skirt, but quickly the skirt slid down her legs and as her torso began to come out through the top of the box, the skirt covered that and revealed her excellent legs and her habitual lack of underwear.

Once Annika had been freed, she mock-ranted about Gabriel being careless and refused to do the next illusion. This seemed to be the obvious point for Hannah to get involved.

To the surprise of much of the audience, one of the waitresses called out, "If she won't do it, I will."

Annika continued to be fake-huffy and relish the prospect of helping with an illusion from the outside for a change. She welcomed Hannah on stage, with a wreath of false smiles; which Hannah began to think was a bit creepy, and made her wonder if she had volunteered for something that she would regret.

The cabinet Annika fetched was not one that Hannah had rehearsed, but she had seen it in Gabriel's workshop. Hannah did not know what it was supposed to do, this worried her a little, but this would not be the first time that Hannah had been performing magic she had not known beforehand.

The cabinet stood a little off-centre on a platform and was narrow in both width and depth and the top surrounding the face-hole was a round section. Annika opened one of the narrow doors in the front, while Gabriel held the other open. Hannah reversed into the tight confines of the cabinet, ducking her head under the edge of the head box and stood to place her face to the face-hole.

The magician and assistant guided a hand each to be through a waist-height hole in the cabinet doors and then closed the doors.

"Shuffle forward a bit so that your toes show through the holes at the bottom," instructed Gabriel and then they both scooped Hannah's white-painted breasts through a chest-level hole in each door. Hannah was a little surprised that her breasts and her hands were the only things holding the doors shut.

While Gabriel rotated the cabinet and showed Hannah black-painted buttocks pressed against a pair of round windows in the rear of the cabinet, Annika went to the wings to pick up the final piece of this illusion. This was a stand holding a vertical blade the height of the body of the cabinet. Hannah did not get to see this, because it came into view as she was being rotated away from the wing where Annika emerged, with the blade in tow.

Hannah knew something was happening out of her sight, because, despite being composed mainly of magicians, their assistants and some experienced volunteers, the audience reacted with impressed muttering and suppressed anticipation at the sight of a very large blade.

The blade carriage was soon lined up with the cabinet and Hannah tried to avoid putting on a worried frown as she felt the slight bump that meant that something was being added to the cabinet.

Annika and Gabriel came to the front of the cabinet and began to push on the front corners. The cabinet retreated under the pressure. Hannah soon felt the edge of the blade on the locked stand behind the cabinet as it slid through a slot in the back of the cabinet and touched her spine; she put on a worried smile.

It was not long before the blade was splitting her spine and nudging between her buttocks. Hannah had been told by Annika that a sharp blade though the area between her legs was highly pleasant when wielded by Gabriel; Hannah took this as an understatement, from the manner and the number of times she had been told this; she was yet to experience it for herself. She tensed slightly in anticipation of the level of sexual pleasure that she suppose she would soon be experiencing, but then worried that the unusual direction of the blade and the slowness of its passage through her body might detract from the sensations.

Annika and Gabriel were now making what appeared to be a great deal of effort to keep the cabinet moving backward onto the blade parked behind the cabinet. As the blade came free of Hannah's spine the cabinet made a sudden jerk backward and she felt the blade bite into the inside of the base of her pelvis and the top of her breast bone. She also felt the edge begin is journey through her sexual organs; the audience saw her eyes cross and the smile on her lips expand into a grin.

Some more effort saw the blade finish cutting through Hannah's body and emerge from the gap between the narrow doors at the front of the cabinet.

"As you can see," announced Gabriel, "Hannah, here, has had most of her body divided in two vertically. Which will allowed a few things to happen. The first thing is this." With Annika doing the same at the rear of the cabinet, Gabriel disconnected the sections of the base under the two seperate sides of the cabinet and allowed the weight of the cabinet above to force the wheeled section to slide apart until chains between the two stopped the expansion of the gap from continuing. The halves of the cabinet, with Hannah's hands, feet and breasts still on display, and the chain, formed an equilateral triangle with her face wearing a puzzled expression at the apex.

"Of course," commented Gabriel, "A lot of people can do the splits, but generally they aren't split up to their collar bone." He and Annika attached cables to the end of the platform and the side of the circular head section, then in a coordinated fashion winched the side that was still attached to the main part of the platform vertical again; in the process lifting the other side from the floor. Annika was left standing on the end of the platform as a counterweight, while Gabriel touched and encouraged Hannah to wriggle the visible parts on the vertical part of the cabinet and part that had been lifted into the air. He took the chance to remove the platform section from the base of the cabinet, this also detached the chain, but the half remained at an angle of sixty degrees to the upright half.

"That angle is about sixty degrees, but I feel sure that Hannah can do better than that." He pulled a crank-handle from the side of the cabinet and offered one end up to Hannah's lips. For a moment Hannah thought that she would resist the attempt to put the crank into her mouth, but she spotted Annika leaning forward with her fingers poised to pinch her nose and force her to open her mouth. She also felt the off-centre cabinet teeter close to its balance point as Annika move closer. Hannah bowed to the inevitable and opened her mouth and was relieved when Annika stepped back to be a more sure counterweight.

Gabriel slid the tip of the crank into Hannah's mouth and holding it there stood to the side to allow the audience to see, then he turned it. It seemed to Hannah that nothing much was happening, except that the crank was being turned, but it had something around the end in her mouth that she could hold in place to permit it to turn. The audience seemed to be getting a bit excited, but Hannah could not immediately tell why. She looked at Gabriel and he saw her perplexed expression, so he gave her a clue by flicking a glance towards her up-raised foot.

Hannah tried to squint sideways to see what the audience and Gabriel could see. It took her a short time to notice that her foot and the rest of that half of her body was higher than it had been. She watched some more and soon concluded that the raised half of her body was rising more as the crank in her mouth was turned. At this stage it was horizontal, meaning that Annika had to lean back to keep the platform in equilibrium.

Gabriel continued to wind the crank and the cabinet section rotated about the head section, until he paused as Hannah's foot was above her head as far as it had been below it at the start. While Hannah felt the warmth of the applause, she could not help wondering what the outcome of this illusion would be.

After the memorable view of Hannah in a half-width double-height cabinet displaying in sequence from the bottom a foot, a hand, a breast, her face, her other breast, her other hand and finally her other foot eleven feet above its partner, Gabriel continued to turn the crank, but he was doing it faster. The moving half of the cabinet continued to pivot around the circular head box, until Annika had to step off the cabinet's base platform, because it was likely to hit her. Soon the moving section of cabinet moved into place next to the half that had stayed in place, but on the other side from where it had started.

The audience watched Annika pull what had been the outer wall of the original cabinet from the back and let them fall sideways onto the stage. They could also see Hannah's expression, which appeared to be worried that she was two halves of a body side by side.

Gabriel nudged Hannah's painted breasts back through the hole they had been pulled through, then took hold of the doors and opened them. He was standing in the way of the audience seeing what had happened to Hannah.

Hannah stepped from the cabinet.

The audience cheered. A few had noticed that as Hannah stood with the backs of her hands to the audience, her thumbs were on the outsides of her hands, implying that her left and right hands had been swapped. Most noticed the effect on her painted neckline; before she entered the cabinet her breasts had been outlined by shoulder-straps up the outsides of her breasts, but now the painted straps originated below each breast and passed through the valley between them before passing over the opposite shoulder.

It took Hannah a few steps to learn to walk again; which she put down to her left and right feet being on the ends of the wrong legs; this was another change in Hannah that most of the audience did not notice, but the few that did appreciated.