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A crowd of more than 1,000 people was waiting in the arena, with 1.78 million more watching over the Internet and on TV to see what those fingers could do, or, more to the point, whether they had gone cold in the five months since he disappeared from public view.
He is in the air force now. Conscripted. Snatched away from his calling and from the fans who revered him for leading their sport — no, their passion — to respectability.
In the crowd, teenage girls squealed. Preteen boys, tugging baffled-looking parents along, craned their necks for a better look.
It was like Elvis getting out of the Army.
The Emperor was back.
