winter_daughter (winter_daughter) wrote in exiles,
@ 2014-01-28 19:12:00

Song Meme: Poker Face
The Exiles actually managed to get some downtime, meaning they had to sit still for a week, before they had their next mission. Sometimes they had to sit and wait until it was time to do whatever it was they were sent to.

Liv spent the time finding poker games and winning substantial amounts of money. They had to eat and pay for lodgings somehow. May as well put what her mother taught her to good use. It was morning and she was sitting at the small table in the room she shared with Sarah and Meggan counting last night's winnings.

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	winter_daughter 2014-02-14 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	Liv watched Sarah's face. It was a little harder to read, but some of the signs were still there. "See that and raise five," Liv said. She didn't have a good hand, but she'd see where she got with it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-08 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	Its going to take time, and she'll probably never be nearly as good at this as Liv. Sarah understands the concept, it just hasn't been trained into her - but she's taking the lessons. She seems pretty determined not to be intimidated out of a decent hand again. "Uhm... call." at least it kept her from raising more when she probably should have. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-09 01:07 am UTC (link)
	"Time to show 'em," Liv said. She laid her cards on the table and she only had a pair of twos. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-09 03:41 am UTC (link)
	Sarah turns over her cards, winning the hand, then notices the relatively few coins. Her big smile fades a bit, but still amused, mostly with herself. "So... even when I win, you got enough from my expression not to bet much, didn't you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-10 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	Liv smiled. "Yup. But you're doing better." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-11 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	"I think that's just because I have a good teacher. I can definitely see now why there's a lot more than luck to this." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-11 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	"Flattery...is always appreciated. There's no luck in poker." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-11 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, uhm... you're..." a brief pause, before she's back to more Rogers-style confidence. "Really good at poker. No luck? If all else were close to even, it would seem like at least some of it would be the cards." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-13 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	Liv smiled. "No luck. You don't need a good hand to win." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-13 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Huh... I suppose you'd know. You've obviously done awfully well with it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-13 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	"I blame my mother. I got more than your normal education." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-14 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	"You and me both, just in very different directions. I've met a few different versions of your mother... that would have to make for a very interesting childhood." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-20 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	Liv shrugged. "I guess it was. Along with ballet and karate, I had lessons with knives, guns, lockpicking and some other not your normal kid activities." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-20 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	"I skipped the ballet... and lockpicking. Heavy on the hand-to-hand and tactical training though, along with the languages and history lessons." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-20 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	"Mom was big into languages too," she said. "I know Russian, Spanish and French. Never could get the knack of Chinese." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-20 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	"My Russian is passable... sort of, like my Japanese. My German and French are better. We were kind of working with what we had really good teachers for." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-20 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Russian was the easiest." She smiled. "Mom said it was genetic. The other two are passable." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-20 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	"Piotr was a good teacher, but it was still kind of one of a number of language classes. The adults kind of cobbled 'school' together for us based on what they knew how to do and teach." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-20 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Lucky. I had to survive public school," Liv said. "Not the best experience." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-20 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd imagine not. I don't know about lucky... but it had its moments." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-20 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	"It wasn't fun, but it's over. For both of us. Now we just have other types of insanity to deal with." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-20 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah... other types of insanity pretty much defines life now. You settling in ok?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-20 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	"More or less," she said. "It's not that bad." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rogue_star 2014-03-20 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Good. Everyone kind of takes it differently." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2014-03-24 12:05 am UTC (link)
	"Not like I can change my mind or anything," Liv said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)