"Rise and Shine, Ladies!" Howard Weiss yelled as he stepped out of the Golden Elevator's doors. The classic styled suit he was wearing was a much better fit than the suit he wore the day prior, most likely because he wasn't planning on changing himself while he was wearing it.

     From the recliners, Elise pulled off her sleep mask, groggy eyes showing through her messy hair as she asked, "What time is it?"

     "About seven o'clock my dear, but I thought it best for you all to have an early start since we have a lot to go through today," Howard said, walking over to the recliners so that he could properly address his assistants. "Now initially, since I thought you all were going to have completed my first task by now, I would have simply told you all to get dressed and come to the roof before eight, but since I am still the only one with a key," He held up his keycard, taunting the contestants with it, "I'm afraid I will have to chaperone you all there. So, I shall be going back upstairs to finish making sure the rooftop is ready for your arrival. If you're not presentable by seven fifty-five, you can consider yourself eliminated from the competition," He flashed a wicked grin at the girls, before about-facing and returning to the elusive elevator, shouting out one last, "Remember. Ready before seven fifty-five!" the doors punctuating his last words.

     Elise looked over at Annette and Patricia, who had similarly sat up from their slumber at their potential magician's ultimatum. Patricia got up, putting on her glasses she had set on a table she had dragged all the way over from the dining section and mumbling, "Is all this really worth only a million dollars?"

     What followed was a stressful fifty minutes of preparation, as the girls used the two simple bathrooms as best they could to make themselves (and in the case of Annette, Rocky) presentable enough to compete. Some comments were made about this being the first time many of them had attempted to shower using a bathroom sink, which got some chuckles, but mostly the girls kept quiet from both a mixture of grogginess, and annoyance that they were even being kept away from proper bedrooms and bathrooms to change.

     Soon, seven fifty five rolled around, and the very moment the clock in the lobby switched over, the elevator doors opened up. "Well girls, let's see how you did." The girls lined up, most all having opted for simple clothes of a t-shirt in their favorite color and either jeans or shorts. Howard looked at his watch, commenting, "Well, you won't win anything fashion awards, but at least you all have managed to get dressed. Let's head up!"

     The girls piled into the elevator, the first time they had been allowed to do so since they got to the competition. The inside was just as elaborate as the golden doors had them to believe, with mirrors that made it seem as though the elevator compartment stretched out into infinity and golden rails to grab onto. With all the girls packed in, Howard pulled out his keycard and swiped it against a small panel next to the golden elevator buttons. He pressed the button marked R, and the doors closed shut-

~~~

Rooftop Stage

     -Almost as soon as the elevator doors closed shut, the elevator doors opened once more, the hot Nevada sunlight hitting the girls like a punch to the gut. All of them squinted their eyes, and Maya even gave out a brief yelp of pain, as they stepped out on to the roof of the Fabulous Weiss Hotel.

     The view from the top of the hotel was astounding, as the flat land of Nevada allowed them to see for miles and miles. Looking one way, the tall skyscrapers and various shaped casinos of the Las Vegas strip could be made out in the background. The other way, pure, unadulterated, hot American Desert. On the rooftop itself, the girls didn't have to look hard to spot the raised platform of a stage in front of them. The stage was rather plain at the moment, as construction on it still had not completed, however the major elements were still there. It had a plain black platform, slightly raised off the ground, with scaffolding extending upwards that currently did not hold any lights on it. However, they had attached managed to attach a curtain. It was a plain black one that clearly was only there as a place holder, but the fact they had attached one at all meant that they were well on their way to the complete thing.

     The girls realized that if there was one thing that seemed to be consistent about Howard up to this point, it was the fact that he was extremely punctual, because right at eight o'clock, Drake Bordignon emerged from behind the curtain. He was once again wearing the outfit that he had wore during almost the entirety of the first season, a pair of light beige khaki pants, and a black button down t-shirt. "Good morning contestants!" He smiled to the girls, "It's finally time to deliver your very first challenge of the season! But before that happens, I have some exciting news. You see, since the studio has given us a bigger budget for this year's season, we've been able to partner with the International Shared Assistants Guild in order to bring some of the best assistants in the world right here to Nevada in order to help deliver and provide feedback on the challenges.

     So, it's my pleasure to introduce to you and the audience at home, the celebrity assistants for this task! Hailing all the way from Australia, the two assistants behind the cult classic Australian TV show, the Faceless Magician. Please welcome, Penny and Jean!" The six contestants clapped, and Elise squealed, as the curtains rose up.

     The two assistants were standing center stage, holding their inner hands together while point their outer hands out towards the audience. On the left, Jean stood, wearing a two piece purple-sequined outfit that exposed her midriff and a pair of purple stilettos. The top portion of the outfit resembled a purple sports bra, while the lower portion was an asymmetrical skirt, where the front of the skirt reached to about her knees, while the back end was closer to half way down her calves. She had her brown, curly hair brushed to the right side of her pale head. Where her face should have been was instead a completely flat plane of skin, leaving no indication that she had ever had a face.

     To her left, Penny stood in her mirrored pose. She was wearing a red-sequined dress that stopped very close to where her thighs met her waist, a pair of black tights and red stilettos completing the outfit. Her dirty blonde bob perfectly windowed her head, pronouncing the fact that she too was completely missing her face even more. The two girls took a bow, before Penny passed her free hand over her face, the facial features reappearing with a grin as she set her amber eyes on the audience. "Good morning girls! I hope you're ready for your first weeklong challenge!"

     From off-stage, Howard walked on, shaking both girls hands (Jean reaching out to accept it, indicating that despite the lack of her face, she was still clearly aware of her surroundings), and passed on a brown letter to Penny, before taking a step into the background of the stage. Penny let go of Jean's hand, using it to open the letter and reading it out to the audience, "You're first task is also a first for the series, as your task is going to be a partner's task!" The girls gasped, looking at each other as Penny continued.

     "While Howard Weiss is currently only looking for a single assistant to help him get back into the magic scene, most of his experience with performing comes from performing with a group of assistants, typically anywhere from three to ten. So, in order to help show that you're a team player, your task for this week is to design and perform a two assistant trick for this Saturday," She grinned as she closed the envelope, returning it to Howard, who stuffed it into his coat pocket.

     "That's right! We'll pair you girls off in a bit, but Penny, how would you and Jean like to show what true teamwork is?"

     "We'd be glad to Howard," Penny grinned. As Howard left the stage, Penny turned towards the audience once more, "The following trick we will be performing for you was adapted from a trick we once performed on the Faceless Magician." Penny swiped her hand over her face, leaving her faceless once again, as Penny and Jean then took their marks, back-to-back in the center of the stage.

    From seemingly nowhere, the sound of an orchestra tuning their instruments was heard, as the two celebrity assistants took several synchronized steps forwards, before turning to face the audience. As the orchestra began to crescendo, Jean reached behind her, and right as the band became silent, she pulled out a relatively plain looking black stick. The orchestra played a single loud note, and out from the end of the stick, a long pink ribbon shot out from one end of the stick, arching through the air and stopping right before the end of it would hit Penny.

     Jean turned towards Penny in a single calculated motion, and as she crept towards Penny, the twinkling sound of a triangle could be heard with each of her steps, matching the inconsistent rhythm perfectly. Once she had reached Penny, she paused, before she reached above Penny with the wand, twirling it around in a circle above her head, the orchestra slowly crescendoing once more. As the ribbon began exaggerating her circular motions, resulting in a cone like shape around Penny, the distance between the concentric circles began to lessen, and soon it seemed as though Penny was completely encircled by the ribbon. But then, just as suddenly as the first time, he band's crescendo stopped, and Jean flicked her wrist, sending the ribbon flying across the stage in another arch.

     Penny was still standing where she had been before, and was just as faceless as ever, but instead of the red-sequined dress she had been wearing before, she was now wearing a red and black, three-tiered Salsa dress, a red flower like bow appearing in her hair and her red stilettos turning into much more comfortable red dancing shoes. Penny grabbed the wand from Jean, who seemed to feign surprise as she stepped into the background, and Penny took center stage once more.

     The invisible orchestra, which had seemed to have been primarily composed of strings instruments and percussion, had seemed to switch suddenly into percussion and horns, as they began to play Salsa music. Penny pranced around on stage in rhythm to the music, spinning the ribbon this way and that as she danced. She would salsa her way to one end of the stage, and then perform an impressive feat of flexibility like stretching her leg up and above her head, the frills of her Salsa dress riding up as she did so, and then salsa her way to the other end, where she would perform an acrobatic feat such as doing a flip in the air.

     At one point near the middle of the dance number, Penny threw the ribbon wand into the air, committing to a hand stand. However, instead of her legs sticking up above her, her upper half returned once more, revealing that the dress inverted into a black and red, three-tiered Salsa dress with a black bow in her hair. She caught the ribbon wand and then nodded her head towards the audience, lifting up her dress slightly and revealing her old upper half had transformed into a pair of legs with black dancing shoes and red leggings.

     Just as it seemed the dance was dying down and Penny had gotten up from performing the split, she tripped on her way towards the other end of the stage, her whole body crashing to the ground, the ribbon wrapping up her body and the orchestra abruptly cutting off. As she struggled to get untangled, a clicking sound could be heard, as the ribbon quickly retracted into the wand, Penny having seemed to have vanished.

     From the background, Jean tilted her head, the triangle hits continuing to match her trepidatious steps towards the ribbon wand. She picked it off the ground, and seemed to pick at something on the wand, and the entire wand seemed to unroll like a roll of wrapping paper, the sound of a descending slide whistle accompanying it. She held up the unfurled wand, and revealed what seemed to be a paper cutout of Penny, with a grin on her face. Jean shrugged, and tapped her foot against the ground twice. The invisible orchestra caught the cue and the orchestra slowly began to play and repeat a passage from the Blue Danube Waltz.

     The music started slow, allowing for Jean to get her footing as she slowly began to waltz with the paper cutout of Penny. She had to hold a rather awkward position in order to keep the cutout of Penny looking as though it were doing the waltz, holding one of her arms outstretched while pinning the other against her shoulder, but she quickly got in the swing of things and was stepping around the stage, doing the occasional spin to impress the audience. Eventually, it seemed as though Jean was using less and less energy to hold the Penny cutout up, letting the music take the two of them away as she continued her waltz around the stage and the band began to accelerate.

     It soon became apparent why Jean was using less energy, as it seemed as though the Penny cutout was slowly moving on its own accord, and slowly covering Jean like wrapping paper. Eventually, when it seemed as though the Penny cutout had successfully wrapped Jean up like a Christmas present and there was only one person waltzing on the stage by themselves, the music stopped, and the Jean present deflated to the floor.

     The sound of crinkling paper was heard, as the faceless Penny cutout impossibly stood up on its own, unwrinkling as she straightened up. The Penny cutout then proceeded to bend it half at the waist, its own version of a bow, and revealing a cutout of Jean's front on the reverse side of her body. The cutout then seemed to lose all life in it, as it crumple to the floor, losing it's shape.

     Howard quickly ran on stage, picking up the crumpled couple before a stray breeze blew them off the building and folding the assistants into a smaller and smaller piece of paper, before stuffing it into his suit pocket. "Alright girls. I hope you enjoyed that display. Now back to the lobby with you all so that I can reveal who the partners are going to be!"

~~~

Lobby

     The ride down to the lobby was just as uninteresting and quick as the first one, but what the girls saw in the lobby was unexpected. Standing in the lobby was the first rather plain thing they had seen in their time in the golden hotel, as it seemed to be some sort of chalkboard with a plain black tarp over it.

     Howard walked over to the board, announcing, "Well ladies, it's time to reveal the teams you six will competing in for this weeks competition. Now, the producers reached out to me, giving me what they thought would be the best team pairing." With a flourish, he pulled off the tarp, revealing a large wooden board with six headshots of the contestants, in two rows of three. Between each picture, a smaller plank listing a team name was situated.

     The first column had a picture of Annette over the picture of Maya, their team named listed as 'The Beauty and Her Beasts'. The second had a picture of Sable over the picture of Sinopia with the team name 'The Wonder Twins'. The third, a picture of Patricia above Elise with the team name 'The Know-it-alls'.

     Howard took one look at the board, scowling at it before saying, "Of course, while the producers might see these as the most cohesive teams, I found their choice in matchmaking rather boring and in some cases offensive. So, I have taken the liberty of correcting it as such. He grabbed the picture of Elise and began pulling it to the right, the other two lower pictures following suite. As he pulled the picture of Elise away from the board a second one seemed to take its place at the front of the line, despite there not having been any space behind the original painting to do so. "There," Howard said, plucking down the team name plates and disappearing them along with the original picture of Elise, "I think that will make this competition a little more interesting." He stood back, admiring his handiwork as the contestants looked at the new teams of Annette and Elise, Sable and Maya, and Patricia and Sinopia.

     "Um... Mr. Weiss?" Annette asked.

     "Howard's fine, what is it, Annette?"

     "Why are you using a headshot of me and not Rocky?"

     "Oh dear, did they not tell you?" Howard said, putting his hand to his head, "The producers told me they were absolutely clear with you when they contacted you. Did you not sign the contract they gave you?"

     "I did, but I thought it was because I was legally representing Rocky."

     "No dear. I'm afraid you're mistaken. I didn't want Rocky to be a contestant. I wanted you to compete."

     "WHAT!"

     "Yes. I'm afraid I do not work with animals. I used to work with pigeons, but they would leave a mess everywhere and after a particularly big one that ruined two of my favorite props, I swore that I would never work with them again."

     "But- But-"

     "But not to worry, I will gladly change up the repertoire if you should win, and Rocky is free to stay here by your side and even perform with you on stage, but you are the one competing in the challenges I've devised Annette."

     "But-"

     "No buts! Now, normally I would say you're all free to go ahead to the practice rooms on the 17th floor I have designated for each of you, but you all still haven't figured out how to solve my first task. Because of this, I'm afraid until one of you has solved it, there will be no rehearsing with your partner." The girls began to protest, but Howard held up his hand. "I'm sorry girls, but that's just the way it has to be. Now, I will be over in that recliner if you should need me for anything. Best of luck."

~~~

Several more grueling hours

    "Do you think Howard is enjoying watching us fail over and over again?" Elise asked Patricia. The two were standing over the box, going through the multiple disenchantment spells that she knew that required at least two people to perform.

     Patricia had the idea that maybe their first challenge was a hint at how to solve the box problem, and that the only way they could open it was by forming a 'witches circle' by holding hands and allowing their magic reserves to link together and channel as much energy as they could towards opening the box. All that had managed to do was cause the golden runes on the box to shine brighter than normal, and the girls abandoned that plan. However, Patricia was not convinced, seeing the box shining brighter as a sign that they must have been thinking in the right direction, so she chose who she perceived as the user with the most magic reserves other than herself (Elise) and had slowly been walking her through several multi-person disenchantment spells that she knew.

     "Honestly, I can't really tell what that guy is feeling at all," Patricia said between mumbling some incantations, "He seems to shift wildly between moods on a dime."

     "Yeah. I think he might be going senile."

     "Do you know if we drop out now, that they'll pay for our tickets home?" Sinopia asked Sable. She was once again, clutching her detached head to her chest as though it were a teddy bear.

     "Sin! Why are you acting this way? It's not like you," Sable said, annoyed with how quickly she had given up.

     "Because maybe if Dad sees that we didn't pay anything to fly here and back, he'll be more willing to take us back," Sin continued her downwards spiral into depression, ignoring Sable's call to normality.

     "Sin! C'mon. Everyone else is struggling hard to try and figure this out, and you've done nothing but wallow in your own self-pity about Dad since we've gotten here!" Sable stood up, fed up with her sister's devotion to the man who had prevented them from having a normal childhood. "When are you going to figure out that Dad doesn't care about us! How many of your sisters have to run away before you stop seeing him as this infallible dream? I'm gonna go try and help those two girls open up the box, and until you at least cheer up, you can consider me as a lost sister too!" Sable stood up, she hated yelling at her sister like that, but she knew that if she didn't do something drastic now, her sister was never going to get out of this spiral of self-doubt and pity. With some small tears in the corner of her eyes, she turned her back on her sister, and headed towards where Patricia and Elise were working on the box.

     "Oh my God! What am I going to do!" Annette was freaking out, with Maya nearby as emotional support. She was using a laser pointer to help direct Rocky, who had taken the form of a small black cat, around in a figure eight pattern in order to get some exercise for the day.

     "Well. You said you have some experience on stage right?" Maya asked, the right corner of her unibrow turning up in a quizzical way.

     "Yeah! But not any where I'm the assistant! Rocky's always been my assistant!"

     "So, it shouldn't be that hard to take over then. Just imagine doing what you normally do, but from Rocky's perspective!"

     "Maya, trust me. I wouldn't be able to do half of the stuff that Rocky and I do on stage if the positions were flipped. I just don't have the magic reserves to handle it."

     "Well... Howard said you could still compete with Rocky, so I'm sure you can figure out a way to tap into some of his magic in order to help you out with your own..." Maya paused for a moment, her eye glazing over as she seemed to be going over something in her mind.

     "You know. That's easy for you to say, but I'm sure you've also had several weeks to prepare yourself for this competition. I've been solely focusing on making sure that Rocky is performing to the best of his- Hey! Where are you going?!" Annette asked, as Maya got up, walking over to where Elise, Patricia, and Sable were working on the box.

     "I think I figured out the solution," Maya said, walking towards the circle.

     "Really?" Elise asked, her voice filled with the hope of getting to sleeping in a real bed tonight.

     "I'm pretty certain," Maya said, "Can I have the box?"

     Patricia looked annoyed that Maya seemed so confident that she had solved the box problem before she did, but eventually acquiesced, saying "Go right ahead."

     Maya bent down picking up the box... and immediately walked over to where Howard was relaxing in a recliner, watching the girls trying to open the box in vain. His grin faded as Maya walked over to him, handing him the box and asking, "Can you please open the box for us?"

     Howard said nothing and continued to scowl, as Maya continued to explain, "It's quite clear that whatever enchantment you used in order to seal this box has all of us combined outclassed, and I understand that you might have been using this as a test to see just how strong we really are, but clearly whatever you had thought our minimum power should have been was too high for us right off the bat, but maybe with your training we can one day grow up to be that strong! One of the things that my mom taught me when I was little was that it was okay to fail, and that if I ever got myself into trouble that was so big that I couldn't handle it on my own, that it was okay to ask for help. So can you please help us become better assistants by opening the box and letting us compete? I'd even be willing to give up my spot if that's what it takes!"

     Howard scowled for a few moments longer, before jumping up, the biggest smile in the world on his face, "Congratulations Maya! For being the first assistant to pass the test!" Howard took the box in his hands, effortlessly opening it up as if it were a book. The other girls, who were watching from a distance, shouted in shock, running up to where Howard was dancing in celebration in front of Maya. Of course, rather than returning his happiness, their shouts were more in anger.

     "So this was all some stupid test!" Annette shouting, do everything in her power to not immediately sic Rocky on him.

     "That's correct," Howard calmed down slightly, "Although, I wouldn't call it stupid."

     "You made us suffer for nearly two days!" Elise shouted at him.

     "I know! You all completed the task much quicker than I thought it was going to take! When I was given this test, it took me over a month to solve it."

     "That's great... And what exactly was the lesson you were trying to teach us all?" Sable asked, just as angrily as the other girls questions.

     "You see girls, this task is all about knowing your limits and being willing to ask for help. As Maya here explained, it can be hard to ask for help. You can feel like you're on top of the world, and that nothing can stop you, and then suddenly you find yourself hitting a brick wall at a hundred miles per hour, and sometimes you don't get to bounce back from that..." Howard trailed off, a look of sadness on his face, before he returned to the moment and said, "As I said on your first night here, I run a much different ship than David Angel does. I won't baby you, and I'm going to be harsher on you than he would be, but I want you to know that I'm here for you if you need help. If you go at a reasonable pace, you can hit that brick wall, bounce back and I'll be right by your side with my sledgehammer, ready to help you pick up speed again."

     The girls took these words in for a moment, Patricia leaning over to Elise and whispering in her ear, "I think you might have been right about that senile thing."

     "Anyways, as the winner of the challenge, I bequeath thee, Maya, with these hotel access keycards," He handed the set of six keycards to Maya, before looking at his watch and yawning. "Hoo! I didn't realize it was getting this late. Okay Girls, I can go over and give you all a proper tour of the facility tomorrow morning. Maya, you can decide what you want to do with those keys. I'm going to go hit the hay," and with that the strange man walked into the golden elevator and left the girls standing alone in the lobby once more.

     All eyes were on Maya, as she looked at the keycards with her large eye. For the briefest moment, it looked as though she was simply going to pocket them for herself and abandon the other contestants in the lobby, but instead she looked up, tears welling in her eye as she said, "We finally won!"

     The girls gathered together for a group hug, Maya in the center, as they just stood together, happy that the ordeal of the cursed box had finally ended.

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& Question Corner &

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To Everyone: "Do you know much of the man you're working to assist for, Howard Weiss?" -@@WanderTones

Elise: "I did a feature a while back on famous lost magicians, and one of the big ones was Howard Weiss. In all honestly, from what I had read I thought he had died, but when they revealed him at the big reunion party, it was quite clear that he's the real deal.

     He retired right before the internet really hit it big, so my attempts to find information on him turned up a whole lot of nothing. From what I can tell, something big happened right before he announced his retirement, but I couldn't find any more information than that. A girl in my YouTube comments on that video said that her mom used to work for him, and that he was super nice to his assistants, but honestly, you could of fooled me based on how he's treated us this far."

Patricia: "Most of the stuff that I've read about Howard has been about how some of his tricks helped shaped the way that we understand magic in a practical sense today. For instance, he was one of the pioneers in boxless magic, saying how magicians had been able to perform card tricks for centuries where the line-of-sight of the observer was consistent, then line-of-sight was completely irrelevant for all branches of magic. Of course, when he started performing that way and proving his point, it led to the creation of the quantum observation of magic theory, that all magic, even magic put under an obscura, is actually observed magic.

    But other than the theories that came out of his work, I can't say that I've actually heard anything about the man himself. Interesting."

     The other four contestants had not heard about Howard before entering the competition, and since their responses were all the same, they have been excluded to save time.

To Everyone: "What are your first impressions of each other? Is there anyone here you've seen or heard of before, or have you watched their auditions? How do you think you will all fare, going into the future?" -@@WanderTones

Elise: "When they released all of the auditions on their website, Cody and I did a livestream where we watched through over a hundred auditions and chose the six that we thought should compete. I can't remember exactly who we watched, but I distinctly remember we watched Maya's and both thought that it would have been cool to have a Monoeye contestant, but kept her as an honorable mention because we didn't think she had what it takes to compete, so it's pretty cool to see that she actually made it!

     As for the other contestants... I think I'm most worried about Patricia. She seems scary smart, and I'm gonna have to look up some of those spells she taught me so I can do a feature on them for my show. The others really haven't left enough of an impression on me yet to judge them, so it'll be cool to see if they can change that."

Patricia: "Honestly, I'm not that worried. I read everyone's magic reserves when I came in, and it's safe to say that I'm the most powerful by a very, very wide margin. Elise seems a little too chatty for my liking, but she is also the second most powerful competitor, so it'll probably be best to keep her on my good side.

Annette: "Well, I hope the other girls don't think that much less of me, because I was taking this whole thing calmly because I assumed that Rocky was going to be doing all the heavy lifting. Now that I know I'm the one who has to be on stage fighting for the position, I'm freaking out a little bit. I think I'm generally a pretty good read on people, and I don't think any of them are bad people, so as long as my gut holds true, I should be able to get along with any of them."

Sable: "I don't know... I haven't really had much of a chance to talk with any of them since Sin's been freaking out since we got here. I guess they seem fine?"

Maya: "Everyone here seems super nice! Although I haven't gotten to talk to any of them much. It sort of seems like they all are going through their own stuff they have to sort out first. Hopefully I'll be able to help them out!"

Sinopia was not available for comment, as she started crying when she entered the questions booth.

To Everyone: "A word of advice about Reality TV shows, prepare to get screwed over for the sake of entertainment. At best, it's for character building. At worst, to have people mock you. I only wish you luck." -@@quad2

Elise: "Thanks for the well wishes! Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel!"

Patricia: "Oh trust me. I knew what I was going into when I signed up for this."

Annette: "Well, that puts  a rather sour mood on everything. From what I saw last year, I don't think that the producers are going to intentionally put us under such terrible circumstances. In fact, from everything I've seen thus far, I'm pretty sure most of our suffering has been because Howard wanted to play with us."

Sable: "Frankly, I'm more concerned about making sure this show doesn't break my sister any further than having it break me, but thanks for the concern."

Maya: "Well... Hopefully mine's the character building kind of suffering then!"

Sinopia was not available for comment.

To Everyone: "Hey there! That spunky magician from last year! I wish you new contestants well and be glad that you are in one piece with food and blankets. Trust me, I've been through worse and it's gets even more bad when it's your own fault." -Rei

Elise: "Oh my God Rei! I absolutely have to have you on my YouTube show when this is all over! You can talk about how you helped Saffron out when she got kicked out of the show and maybe even about your own history!"

Patricia: "Oh, I'm well aware of the comforts that we're getting at this place. When my hometown flooded, I remember my parents and I had to live in a shelter for almost four months while they fixed our home up because all of our family and friends' houses were destroyed too. Suffering through a little bit of a crazy magician shouldn't be that hard."

Annette: "Thanks for advice!"

Sable: "Hey Rei! Do you think you could get in contact with Saffron and tell her to send letters to that secret email address again? I feel like Silvia's gonna need all the advice she can get on how to handle the little ones while Sin and I are gone."

Maya: "Sounds awful to hear that you suffered so much! Hopefully we'll all be fine through the next couple of challenges!"

Sinopia was not available for comment.