I was going to go all spooky horror, but this is maybe more interesting. And maybe more subtly unsettling, in its way. I mean, what if the kid only smiles over the oddest things?
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And then you could flip that “smiles at the oddest things” all the way back around to awesome. After all, the kid obviously has a powerful intuitive grasp and/or logical understanding of the way that magic actually works, in a way that basically no one else does. So… you’re desperately trying to keep the kid entertained, and you’re just doing random stuff in the hope that it works, and some of it *is* working. The kid has a bizarre sense of humor, but whatever. You’ll work with it. You’ve certainly done worse for less reason in the past. You *lean into it*, going for the stuff that gets the biggest smiles. You refine your act for the audience… and suddenly magic starts coming out. Apparently, the kid thinks that watching people stumble their way towards their own innate magics is prime entertainment, especially when they have no idea that that’s what they’re doing, and also look a little goofy doing it.
Admittedly, firing off magic unintentionally in the wrong place and time *might* draw attention that you hadn’t been looking for, but that’s all just part of the fun, right?
On the one hand, this is an interesting idea. On the other, I don’t think I have the first inkling how to turn this into an adventure. On the gripping hand, I have an 8 year old who might have ideas.