Laying the microphone down the stage, feedback reverberated through the sound system, making the audience cringe.

“I want to be whole again,” the egg-shaped man replied.

“What’s your name?” the mysterious magician asked.

“Humpty.”

“Sir, you have a crack through your shell. And,” he wandered around the man, “it goes all way round, does it not?”

“Sir, I have no idea. I fell off a wall, and I hurt. I hurt all over. Can you make the pain go away?”

“Yes, of course.”

Pushing down on his head, the shell collapsed from the pressure.

He got egg on his face.