A fun and interesting use of the ood's telepathic powers, showing how a single ood can be controlled by someone with some abilities, not just a hoard controlled by an extremely powerful entity.

Magic tricks are always fun, especially for me if you know how they're done, and in this case it's explained brilliantly without all that much technobabble at all. It's the sort of thing you could easily see happening if those powers existed.

The ending is also fun with 10 using his own abilities to let the ood speak a little more freely and condemn his slaver.

This wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, it being a tie-in product clearly intended more for youngsters, but in wanting to check out an Ood story off the beaten path, I found a short little tale that was quite fun.

It does a few key things right - one, it doesn't shy away from or minimize the monstrous treatment the Ood suffered as a species as part of their history.  That's a key part of what I like about these aliens.  Two, it also has some really fun ideas about a magician using an Ood's telepathic abilities to swindle his audience.  It's not overly developed and it ends all too abruptly, but it was vitally memorable and interesting, so it's really not that bad.