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Cherry and Dallas's Room

In this room, Dallas and Cherry had invited in Ramona to try and spend a few hours together with just the three of them. Currently, they were playing a small game of poker with some money as stakes, and Ramona was winning by a landslide. Even though the Gallian Army had forbidden gambling among it's soldiers, it still didn't stop much of the Militia from doing it anyway. To these irregular soldiers, these games were a way to pass the time during the lull of fighting but also as a way to relieve stress about the war. For some, it helped keep their sanity together through all of the madness they were going into. But it also helped bring the soldiers together and helped them bond over the game. Besides, to many people, losing many people seemed to be both habit forming and relaxing. And for two of them, they were about to lose every bit of their money they currently had on the table.

And with a single group of cards, Ramona laid them down on the table to show nothing but Aces, a default win. With a triumphant laugh, Ramona grabbed the fifty Ducats on the table and cheered "Read em and weep girls. I've just become fifty Ducats richer and it isn't even payday yet."

"Aw man, I always lose these games!" cried Dallas as she threw her cards upon the table in frustration at her loss.

"Like, if you always lose they why did you play?" asked Cherry in her signature "like before the actual sentence" manor.

Instead of answering, Dallas simply folded her arms and pouted at her loss while Ramona simply put her winnings away. But what caught Cherry's attention was what she was using to put her winnings away. It was a stylish little coin purse that she kept in her footlocker as a personal belonging. But the reason why is was so eye catching to her was because she recognized it in the latest issue of her favorite fashion magazine, Gallian Girl. It was the latest fashion accessory to hit the stores just before the war had broken out. It was also pretty pricey, going for a fee hundred Ducats, more than the average girl in Gallia could afford.

"Like, how did you get that Ramona?" asked a very excited Cherry, with Dallas looking at it as well.

Ramona simply put the purse back in her footlocker and answered "I got it as a gift. Before the war I was a model. After one of my runway shows, the company I worked for gave it to me for a job well done. I've had it ever since."

"Wow. That's amazing. All the girls in my boarding school would have killed for that purse. That was all they ever wanted," commented Dallas.

"You went to a boarding school?" asked Ramona, curious as to Dallas's statement.

Dallas nodded her head and answered back "It was an all girls boarding school. I've pretty much been there since I was little, aside from visiting my parents on holidays and the summer. It's in the part of Gallia that's now occupied by the Germans. I had to leave when they were getting close."

"Ha. No boys at your school? Well that explains why you just completely ignore the guys when they hit on you. You don't know when they're doing it," joked Ramona as she laughed along with Cherry. It was a common thing for them to see with Dallas. There were guys in both the Militia and the Regulars who would try and Dallas would simply brush them off without even knowing it. It seemed like she had no real experience in dealing with boys and their advances.

Dallas simply shrugged off the laughter and said with a smirk "Who said I got advances from only men?"

Her comment caused both Ramona and Cherry to instantly shut up. They felt like they had just made fools of themselves in front of Dallas. Judging from her comment, Dallas was more romantically interested in individuals of the fairer sex. No doubt this was brought on by her parents who had shipped her off to these all girl boarding schools. Neither Ramona nor Cherry didn't have any problems with that, but that didn't mean that there were other people who wouldn't be as understanding. In every Europan country, being a homosexual was against the law. If one was caught then they would face two choices: either they would spend a considerable amount of time in prison or be sent to a psychological ward and force fed medicine aimed to "cure" them but in reality just made them feel a hell of a lot worse. So for many homosexuals they had to keep it a secret and only tell it to a few select people that they trusted with such information. And apparently, Dallas wanted to share this information with Ramona and Cherry.

"Like...oh...I didn't know that," said Cherry, still a little surprised by Dallas's sudden reveal to them.

"It's not like we don't we have a problem with it or anything like that. It's just...a surprise you know?" added Ramona, trying to clear up the confusion that may have been brought up due to Cherry's comment.

"I know. I just thought you guys would like to know considering we were talking about people making advances on me," pointed out Dallas.

With a renewed smirk on her face, Ramona simply said "How about another game now? We can move on from this awkward stage and You two can have a chance to win back your money...or lose whatever you have left."


Next up is Montley Leonard and Knute Jung.

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