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It was really my fault the girl couldn't remember her lines, anyway.

Though I had a (in my opinion) wise policy of not sleeping with other actors in the theatre, that didn't stop anyone from wanting too. The girl in question, Lucy, was an excellent actress, though perhaps not over blessed with brains.
To make a long story short, I dropped a flat on her. She had apparently been watching me practice a fight for Hamlet, (I was playing Laertes- a more distinguished actor than I played Hamlet- frankly, were it not for his ability, his age would have made it look silly) merely because I took my jacket off for it, and a miss-step sent me hurtling into the backdrop. It crashed into the screen, and brought the screen down, and the boom that held it aloft crashed into her head.

Keep in mind, none of us knew this at the time, and I was subject to many japes and cat calls for my misstep. But as we helped heave everything back into place, we saw her pinned beneath. With haste we freed her and I brought her to the doctor those of the theatre favored myself.

Once she'd awoken, she didn't seem to have taken any more harm than a large goose's egg that could be hidden beneath a wig. In fact, it wasn't until we neared the end of the run of Hamlet, and went to begin the next show that anyone noticed the problem.

She had noticed before hand, but had said nothing, because she could not seem to commit anything new to her long term memory. This made it near impossible to learn new lines, or stage direction. Lucy would try her best, and in the end, it would fail. She was sure that she would be forced to become a seamstress, or a whore to support herself, if she could not act.

Since, as I said I felt at fault for her loss of senses, I made up my mind to help her.
The problem being, the only spells I could find had to be cast directly on her. I could not simply tell Lucy that I was practicing spell craft.

So, not to sound too melodramatic, I had to bring her into my power first.