Fortunate that the debonair card sharp could find entertainment in being continually trounced by his amateur partner. I hoped to sometime play against someone who wasn’t Karish. I was pretty sure it was only our bond that gave me some kind of hunch about what kind of hand Karish had. The only way I’d know if I had any talent was if I played against someone else. Only I didn’t have any money to make it worth their while. It started raining during our watch. Hard. I could hear the rain bouncing off the roof. It didn’t get any cooler, though. Wet and hot is just a nasty combination. Uh, sometimes. It was still raining when Riley and Sabatos came to relieve us. They were good enough to offer to lend us their rain gear, but we refused them. It was too likely it would still be raining once their watch was over, and while it was a crazy idea I couldn’t help feeling I might have been responsible for the rain, as I had been playing with the patterns. No delusions of divinity here. Of course, about a dozen steps from the Stall I was regretting my nobility, but I refused to go back and ask for the rain gear.
