[Event Post]

[triade_oscura]

::If you're going through the park, near nice flowers, you can find a little girl at a bench and table shuffling playing cards. Near it is a eyedropper and a glass of water. Perhaps you'd like to ask why she's doing Riffle and Hindu shuffles over and over. And where her mother is.::

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[triade_oscura]

Shuffling cards.

::Shuffle shuffle, fliiiiiick.::

[bull_or_atkins]

"To what end?"

[triade_oscura]

Practice. For work.

[bull_or_atkins]

"And what does a little child like you do?"

[triade_oscura]

Study, research, psychoanalysis, study, research, shuffle, practice. Get better.

[bull_or_atkins]

"And what do you research?"

[triade_oscura]

Systems. And the effect of changing a seed component in that system and the dynamic reactions that result from it.

::Riffle shuffle.::

[bull_or_atkins]

"That's a lot for such a little thing."

[triade_oscura]

... Are you attempting to patronize me...?

::Just stares at you, Bullman.::

[bull_or_atkins]

"Yes."

Smuggest look.

[triade_oscura]

... Why?

::She is not impressed.::

[bull_or_atkins]

"Because being patronizing to children is the right of the elderly."

[triade_oscura]

::Rolls her eyes as she riffle shuffles over and over, avoiding bending her cards.::

Uh huh...

[bull_or_atkins]

"Ah, cards. I never really learned to play with a deck like that, because of a trick an old friend would always do."

[triade_oscura]

I assume by trick, you mean he cheated constantly.

[bull_or_atkins]

"No."

He snatches the deck with frightening speed for an old geezer.

"My friend was.. rather stoic. He had a tendency to intimidate people, unintentionally. But whenever he WANTED to intimidate them, he'd take a deck of cards.."

He sets the deck back on the table, with the edge hanging off, and grips the entire deck between his index finger and thumb.

"Amd he'd bite them, just like this, and rip a perfect thumb shaped wedge out of the entire deck."

[triade_oscura]

... Seems somewhat of a waste to do that. There are much simpler ways of intimidating someone. Such as stabbing them.

[bull_or_atkins]

"If you stab someone you can kiss getting any reliable information goodbye."

[triade_oscura]

... Perhaps we've had different experiences with concerns to interrogation...?

[bull_or_atkins]

He strokes his beard.

"Yes, I'm sure you've had lots of experience interrogating the cookie queen, child."

[triade_oscura]

... I've never spoken to her actually. The Kingdom of Candy is not somewhere I'm usually well received or wanted.

[bull_or_atkins]

"Of course. How silly of me."

[triade_oscura]

Quite silly, sir. Can I have my cards back?

::Drums her fingers on the wooden bench.::