From: jools	Date: December 15th, 2010 09:26 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"I'll play either." She ended up playing either side often enough. She flipped the board and opened the little drawer on her side. Pulling out all the black pieces she set her side up for play.

"You can go first," she offered. It was the nice thing to do if she was going to end up kicking his ass anyway.

From: spiceitup	Date: December 16th, 2010 02:48 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"I tried to teach my sisters chess once," he told her conversationally as he moved a pawn forward. "They don't get it though. I tried to make it interesting for them, and told them about how the little farmers went off to tend the fields, and the bishops would come around all like 'hey you didn't pay your tithe' and then the knights would have to defend when the other farmers tried to barge in on their land--"

He stopped suddenly, mortified to realize he'd just told her about the ridiculous stories he'd made up about the inanimate chess pieces. At least he hadn't spilled that they made him play Pretty Pretty Princess with them instead.

	From: jools	Date: December 17th, 2010 12:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

Jools grinned at Bobby's silly story. She laughed kindly and moved her pawn to counter. "You know Lewis Carroll wrote Through the Looking Glass drawing strongly on chess movements in his imagery and the progression of the novel. It's pretty brilliant to write a story following such a storied author." It was about as close to a compliment as Jools ever got.