X'The Shark Pit got its uses,' Isidro said mildly.'For little boys as think they big.' He tossed a card to the middle of the table. 'Not you boss's problem now, I grant you --
'Not then neither. I know. I was there.'
'Don't mess with jailhouse friends, monsieur,' Dee said, gathering up the pitched cards. 'It don't end well. A pair for monsieur; the game goes to Monsieur Janes.'
Dee: Did I deal you that?
Hob: You see somebody else here dealin' cards?
Petra: Well hey there, Sugar. Look like you had a handful a me. Now don't let me distract you....
Dee laughed quietly and touched the new arrival's wrist. 'Hans, this is Petra, a girl with a good eye for a winner. Pet, Hans. If he wants distractin' that's on the two of you, but you ain't obligated. He has the hospitality of the house.'
Petra leaned back to look the wary Hans up and down. 'Well...'
Then her look slid beyond him and the kittenish pout was replaced with something hard.
Petra: ... by the door... thug... my old House...
Dee: Get you to the back. I'll let the front know.
Dee: Another game, madames and monsieurs...?
'Not then neither. I know. I was there.'
'Don't mess with jailhouse friends, monsieur,' Dee said, gathering up the pitched cards. 'It don't end well. A pair for monsieur; the game goes to Monsieur Janes.'
Dee: Did I deal you that?
Hob: You see somebody else here dealin' cards?
Petra: Well hey there, Sugar. Look like you had a handful a me. Now don't let me distract you....
Dee laughed quietly and touched the new arrival's wrist. 'Hans, this is Petra, a girl with a good eye for a winner. Pet, Hans. If he wants distractin' that's on the two of you, but you ain't obligated. He has the hospitality of the house.'
Petra leaned back to look the wary Hans up and down. 'Well...'
Then her look slid beyond him and the kittenish pout was replaced with something hard.
Petra: ... by the door... thug... my old House...
Dee: Get you to the back. I'll let the front know.
Dee: Another game, madames and monsieurs...?
When last we saw.... Hob - Isidro
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The year is 2007. Elizabeth Barnabas keeps house for her private detective brother: a respectable woman even in the staid Anglo-Scottish Republic. Except Elizabeth doesn't have a brother....
July 7, 2026
I think it's fairly clear here that part of Petra's job is to bleed off anyone who's winning an excessive amount from the gaming tables into the House's other money-making activities, but I am very tired so I will overexplain just in case.
I was really hoping for more than one update a month, but my life continues to Life with excessive fervor, and it's unlikely to improve any time soon; I have two business trips and the tail end of both a work crisis and my daughter's difficult first year of high school in July, so I honestly can't say if you guys will see the next page before August. I am trying, but I'm ending most work days feeling like a wrung towel, and it turns out wrung towels do not Creative very well. Fingers crossed things will get better by fall....
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