[Location: Sanctuary Square] Part the Fifth: Second Attempt at a Game

[ironshodboots]

Nazca is mostly over seeing Locke (as much as she can be, since she's still adamant that it was a trick, but some small part of her can't believe that it was). She's still uneasy from the setting, and the mind control, and waking up this morning on a mint. (She broke it up to experiment with at the bar, but her hair still smells like it. She

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[aklingonside]

B'Elanna was tired of finding different ways to kill time. She spent most her time working on the Delta Flyer - checking and double checking the ship's systems - and a lot of time searching for a way to contact Voyager, but, at a certain point, you had to step back and take a break.

As she crossed Sanctuary Square, the engineer found herself missing an entirely unexpected member of the crew. The separation from Tom and Chakotay constantly ate away at her, but Neelix was rarely at the front of her mind. Though if anywhere needed a morale officer, it was Taxon.

She paused when she spotted Nazca, raising a skeptical eyebrow.

"What sort of game?"

[ironshodboots]

"Well, that's sort of up to you." Nazca smiled a bit. "I doubt you know any of the ones I do, so I could teach you. Or if you know a game using a deck of cards like this, you could teach me. I'm up for either."

B'Elanna's appearance doesn't seem to especially shock her; then again, she's spent the last week working with Ax.

[aklingonside]

"I'm going to guess that you don't know Fizzbin," B'Elanna said wryly, taking a step closer but not sitting down. She didn't know many card games. She'd learned a few basic games during her childhood and picked up others - from a variety of planets and cultures - during her time with the Maquis and her time on Voyager. Klingons, for their part, had preferred games that involved displays of physical strength. "I always like learning something new."

Although she didn't remark on the fact that Nazca took her appearance in her stride, the fact that she did came as something of a relief to someone who had been called a demon since arriving in the city.

[ironshodboots]

Nazca spread the deck of cards, face up. They look hand painted, and quite aesthetic in their way. "I don't, but then, I don't know that many games from anywhere but Camorr. Poker is it." She considers. "I could teach you Rich-Man, Beggar-Man, Solider-Man, Duke. It works better with more people, but you'd get the basic idea, at least."

[oppositeofhero]

Tony was beginning to feel restless, after having spent the last week or so in one workshop or another. He was never an outdoors-man, but now he was feeling a distinct need for some fresh air and change of scenery.

So he found himself in Sanctuary Square, just taking a long walk around and mentally running over formulas, equations, and other things related to chemistry and elemental properties. He didn't notice Nazca until he was almost directly in front of her, and then all the complicated jumble rolling around in his mind was temporarily pushed to the backburner.

"Hey, Nazca."

[ironshodboots]

She smiles a crooked smile. "Hey yourself. What've you been up to?"

Though she isn't certain he'll actually tell her, it can't hurt to ask.

[oppositeofhero]

"Oh, you know me. Tests. Experiments. Explosions. And a sizable dose of chaos." And as odd as it was, that was a remarkably succinct summary of what Tony was doing. He just left out the part that all of his tests and experiments were failing.

Hopefully his plan to get others in Taxon involved wouldn't backfire as well. Of course, Nazca didn't need to know any of this. So he just grinned back at her, and asked, "So what's all this?" This being the sign, the table, and the cards. "Learn a game or teach a game, huh?"

[ironshodboots]

"Well, I tried to get people to come and gamble a few months back, but credits aren't coins. Besides, I felt I should meet more people, as it doesn't seem I'm going anywhere any time soon."

She notices that he's the smallest bit preoccupied, but that was his right, if he liked. "And as no one knows the same games I know, I thought I might learn some. Casey taught me the basics of poker, but that's the only Earth game I know."

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[ironshodboots]

"Up to you." She smiles at him a little. "I can teach you one from home, or you can teach me something, if you'd rather. I doubt we already know any of the same ones."

Given the circumstances under which she saw him last, her gaze is a little bit of an evaluation, but she is truly glad to see him.

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[ironshodboots]

"Not real? How so?"

She gestures for him to sit, and starts dealing out the cards into the configuration for a game not entirely unlike a bastard child of whist and euchre.