An Open Invite

[alanwrotethis]

Niketas nods emphatically.
"Here you go Elder. "

[Valentina Audley]

Valentina looks back to Anton with an innocent smile. "Yes darling, but you are very young compared to most others in this room are you not?"

Then she laughs lightly. "I'm sorry Neonate, it's wrong of me to tease you. How are you these nights?"

[L .]

Aurelia is focussing so hard on the card in her hands that it's close to bursting into flame.

A few beats. Then: "Non! I do not like this game. I thought we were playing poker This, I do not understand."

She turned up her nose, and - pinched between her middle and index fingers - flicked the card so that it skidded violently across the table.

"I have stupid card."

She slips off a boot, and tucks it underneath her chair, shooting a furious look at Dukes. "This is your fault! Your game!"

[alanwrotethis]

"Umm, ace is 1 or 11 Aurelia, you are still very much in the game my unstoppable force..."

[Laurence]

Laurence looks down at his new card, poker face in place and takes another card. A satisfied smile on his face, as he holds his cards in front of him.

"I will pass on any more cards."

Laurence turns his head to Dukes, nodding his head to the Elder.

"Certainly I am dealing with less issues than the last time we encountered one another Elder Dukes."

[Manacledairman]

[Anton]

Anton gives Valentina his full attention. "Look, unless you're going to tell me that you have been present at an orgy - that deliberately started because of palm reading - then I'm winning this round. And no lying. Age is not everything," he tapped his nose, and winked above that scatter of freckles.

"Besides, you teasing is better than me losing in a strip game. Unlike my Dad here, I don't run around forests in the buff, let alone through peoples houses. I see you're not playing either. How are you doing?"

Anton started, a little surprise by the last. "I am... I've been better? Thanks for asking, though."

He slants a look up and mimes vomitting slightly, his eyes alive. Unstopable force indeed.

[alanwrotethis]

[Lady Grace]

Grace very delicately stands on Aldrich's foot.
Then pulls a face when he looks.

[L .]