a fourth miracle
[ A girl is sitting... mid air, legs crossed, as if seated amongst the stars. She's pretty devotedly shuffling a deck of cards, every which way she can. ]
I've decided I'm bored with chess. It has its elegance, certainly holds to the test of time, but I'm not above holding appreciation for newer games.
[ After all, she'll be playing it with more modern people. ]
You.
--Yes, you. Do I look like I'm speaking to anyone else?
Play a game with me, won't you? A simple game of drawing a card.
[ Mid air, she spins, holding the deck away, wrist downward, palm facing her. In a circle, around her, the cards float mid-air. The cards shuffle themselves in a circle around her-- no matter what you do, you can't see the face of the cards, just the backs. Illusion magic. ]
This is a game of luck. Draw a card jack or higher, and you win.
Draw lower, and you lose. The loss condition is that I ask a question and you answer.
[ By the way she talks about it, it feels more like a game of Russian roulette, deceptively safer-sounding. ]
And if you draw the joker, that's a loss upon loss. But the odds are against that, isn't it? I promise, magic aside, the odds are as fair as if they were laid out on a table.
Well? Will you play, and feed my boredom momentarily?
I've decided I'm bored with chess. It has its elegance, certainly holds to the test of time, but I'm not above holding appreciation for newer games.
[ After all, she'll be playing it with more modern people. ]
You.
--Yes, you. Do I look like I'm speaking to anyone else?
Play a game with me, won't you? A simple game of drawing a card.
[ Mid air, she spins, holding the deck away, wrist downward, palm facing her. In a circle, around her, the cards float mid-air. The cards shuffle themselves in a circle around her-- no matter what you do, you can't see the face of the cards, just the backs. Illusion magic. ]
This is a game of luck. Draw a card jack or higher, and you win.
Draw lower, and you lose. The loss condition is that I ask a question and you answer.
[ By the way she talks about it, it feels more like a game of Russian roulette, deceptively safer-sounding. ]
And if you draw the joker, that's a loss upon loss. But the odds are against that, isn't it? I promise, magic aside, the odds are as fair as if they were laid out on a table.
Well? Will you play, and feed my boredom momentarily?