Two people bring objects they have repeatedly failed to relinquish. The woman has canceled and reinstated her husband's renewal card four times. She asks for disappearance rather than destruction. After the trick, her hands retain the card's shape and she asks where it went. The man has twice carried a made hand home from the bins. When it disappears, his breathing changes, but he does not ask its destination.
The payments and the magician's store of words are not one stated tariff. The woman pays less than a reinstatement; no coin amount is supplied. After the man's trick, the magician asks for one clearly spoken word. He has one hundred and forty words inside him that are not his, without an itemized history of acquiring them. He experiences the woman's word as load-bearing. This bodily perception does not explain the full exchange system.
The magician touches neither object when performing the disappearances. Objects cease to be present while a word remains within him. Behind the folding table there is no drawer, closing off one ordinary explanation without revealing another. The woman's shaped hands and the man's changed breathing persist on this side of the trick. The destination of the vanished objects remains outside what the story establishes.