[Author's Note: Ello Ello Ello! Good morning, my friends! (Or, at least, it was morning when I started writing this...) As usual, thank you for all the reviews and favorites and follows. Here's your chapter of the day! I originally tried to let my friend pick the prompt, but he and my brother got into a fight and threw prompt papers everywhere, so I had to confiscate the hat. So I picked one instead. Here's a little all-dialogue chapter for you. :3]
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Chapter 4:
Cards (noun)- A game that looks simple
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"Clara, put down another card."
"I just did."
"No, you have to put another one down now."
"Okay, okay."
"No, not there. Put it there."
"Isn't that the discard pile?"
"Only if you played an odd-numbered card."
"This game makes no sense, have I mentioned?"
"Several times, yes. And this is actually considered a very simple game on this planet. It's the kind children play, like go-fish."
"Well, sorry. The card games I remembered playing as a kid never used a deck with 12 numbers I've never even heard of. Also, we never had to play in order to escape execution."
"Yes, well, this certainly makes the game more interesting. It's your move again."
"Okay. Um... there."
"Oohh..."
"What? Isn't that a good card?"
"Well, no. Actually, that's a very bad card."
"You said that's one of the best ones!"
"No, that's this one. They look similar, but this number is somewhere around the value of 17, and that one is about a 2."
"So what, did I lose?"
"No, not yet. You just pretty much destroyed any progress you were making and made it very likely you will lose."
"Great. It's your turn now, anyway."
"Okay then... ah ha!"
"Is it necessary to slap the table like that every time?"
"Nothing's technically necessary, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Oh, smile a bit, Clara. I've got us back in the game."
"Well, maybe you should just take my turns from now on."
"Can't, that's very much against the rules."
"How do you even keep the rules of all the games in the universe memorized? I barely knew how to play two when I was a kid."
"Well, technically speaking I'm rather intellectually superior, but let's not go there now. It's your turn again."
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[Author's Note: La la la, pointless chapter is pointless. Honestly, I just needed something to write for 'cards'. (Why I even put that into my prompt hat, the world may never know.) I'm probably going to put up another chapter later today to make up for this very short little thing. Review, bitte! :3]