Gem in Black
Concluding our little misadventure, we peer in at the back room of the abandoned jewelry shop Wendel, where are well-dressed trio debrief with their boss over a game of cards.
Sandra: *decked out in a black silk evening dress* Chrys, you're going to have to start using more plausible lines; you risk our being discovered with all this nonsense you fill people's heads with.
Chrys: Ah, you take away all my fun. Two for me.
Sandra: *dealing* Elazul, that was a little heavy-handed of you, but efficient. Rubens, you were in and out like the wind. I expect no less from a Lucidia; you set a good example.
Rubens: Thank you.
Sandra: The statue?
Rubens: Here it is. Why all this fuss over a piece of junk anyways?
Sandra: I'll show you. *smashes statue and holds aloft a gem* Maybe you recognize our missing guardian?
Rubens: So Nick hid her core in the statue?
Sandra: Our dragoon friends must have picked it up by mistake. Our luck there.
Elazul: How do we get her mobile again?
Sandra: That's tomorrow's job. I call.
Elazul: Three queens.
Rubens: Ahh, two pair.
Sandra: Flush here.
FLASH
Chrys: Four 2s!
Everyone: Four 2s!
Gem in Black/The Maltese Falcon/Mission Impossible, brought to you by a mind on too little sleep.
Copyright 1/19/2001 Dom`ny Mortis, revamp 3/28/2001.