Something surprising happens

"-but, I do have magic." The shopkeeper, still smiling, bangs his cane three times onto the wooden floor.

You risk a peek following the shopkeepers odd statement and watch as the ground underneath your three classmates opens up into a circular, seemingly empty void and they fall inside.

As quick as it opens, the void closes again and is replaced by unoccupied, worn wooden flooring.

Your mouth gapes in astonishment and your head swivels back and forward between the empty spot on the floor and the old man who had just seemingly saved your bacon.

"Don't worry about your friends. They'll turn up again. Somewhere. Most likely..."

"How?" You started. The man said he was giftless but how else could you have explained that. Magic? Was that his gift?

"A simple bit of magic. I assure you. Now may I interest you in one of my many fine curio's you see before you?" The shopkeeper breezed past the whole situation in his stride.'

"Magic is that your gift?" You have to know what the hell just happened.