"Cut!"
Annan shouted from behind the Three-Color Ghosts.
The first scene of The Truman Show was complete.
"Lord Annan, is something wrong?" Faru Barros looked at Annan anxiously.
After ten days of grueling dieting, Faru Barros had lost twenty-five pounds. He had slimmed down so quickly that his skin sagged, making him look years older.
But in a world of magic, that was no problem—even restoring his youth was possible.
Once Faru Barros had received Skin Smoothing and changed into a cozy sweater, he looked as though he had stepped straight out of The Truman Show.
Incidentally, Annan had discovered that Allen World had no sweaters.
The rich had clothes made from cold-resistant magical beast hides or enchanted with magic, while the poor could not afford expensive wool products.
Sweaters were wonderful: cheap, durable, and easy to unravel and knit into new clothes when no longer wanted. They also paired well with Faster Cloth—sweaters kept out the cold, while Faster Cloth blocked the wind.
No Spinning Machine was needed. With two crochet hooks and a few balls of yarn, anyone could knit a sweater anywhere!
Once Annan realized this, he had the Mushroom House make two crochet hooks, then asked Hunt, the Spinning Machine's Machine Spirit, to spin some yarn.
It was not exactly his job, but Annan figured something like this should be easy for a Machine Spirit.
By now, the yarn should be nearly ready.
Hmm...
Annan considered the scene.
There had been nothing wrong with Faru Barros's performance!
Usually, when a scene went perfectly on the first take, Annan shot it again anyway to keep the actors from getting complacent.
But he could not do that with Faru. Annan had only paused to think for a moment, and Faru's face had already fallen—
"You're going to make