Year of the Tiger

Afterwards, we’d call it the Year of the Tiger, but at the time, it was just the new finish of the act. After the teleportation and Zalynda’s trademark card routine, Rendal and Nir would lead the tiger out on stage, do some small comedy, do the color change, then elevate, and finally turn it into a swarm of tiger butterflies. Beautiful routine.

And since the tiger was old and so well trained that it was basically a house cat, we thought we’d be set for years. But then someone tipped off the cops about us killing the butterflies each night…