Just a parlor trick. [ Which is, in a sense, true. It's easy enough to ask fate to just pretend they were never there in some unpleasant situation, even if said situation cannot actually be undone.

(He also doesn't want to give a real explanation, and he's not going to be able to pull it off again for a while.) ]

That said, I dunno how far we are from them, and they'll probably figure out they've been hoodwinked, so we oughta get a move on.