Storytelling is the earliest form of magic we have.

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Character who requires an audience. Character with a pathological need to be witnessed. Itching for someone, anyone to perform to, if only for a moment longer, because when the warm embrace of the stage lights vanishes as they flicker out and the show is over, there is no one between them and the mirror. Nothing to break the frigid, silent condemnation of the reflection held within.