damned_institute | Day 38: Game Room

She’d never been in the Game Room before.

It didn’t look spectacularly interesting, she had to admit… but it’d be more fun than just hanging out in the Sun Room, right? Yuffie idly thumbed through a deck of cards, walking around the room to examine various bits and pieces. Board games, video games, chess… No really awesome prank material that she could see, but maybe she could rope somebody into a game of poker? That could be fun, but… ah, then again, most of the patients were just like her -- they didn’t have anything really cool that she could swindle out of them. Not until Nightshift, anyway.

Still! She’d keep it in mind. It wasn’t like there was anybody else in the room yet anyway, so any potential swindling would have to wait a little while. What could she do in the meantime, huh? Pick- pocketing a nurse could be fun..! Wait -- no, not when it was quiet like this. She’d have to wait until there was more cover, unless she got distracted. Yuffie hadn’t stolen anything in days, not since that time in Doyleton, with the Kaito kid…

Yuffie smirked. That had been fun.

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For what seemed like the hundredth time today, Subaru tried to smile without moving his face much and said reassuringly, "It's not so bad as it looks. I'm sure it must look truly awful." At least, if Subaru remembered correctly, the next shower day wasn't for a little while--hopefully the wound on his back would be a little better healed by then, and it wouldn't be so obvious how badly hurt he'd been. For now, as he was clothed, only his face was really clearly in bad shape.

It did look truly awful. However, he knew how uncomfortable it could be to be on display like that. When it'd been him, he'd just wanted to sink into the floor rather than have the people keep coming over and asking him awkward questions.

"Well I'm glad you're okay," he said, dropping the matter. "Did... you want to play a game? I can go get one if you like."

"I'm afraid I'm probably only good for something simple, today. But if you don't mind putting up with me, some distraction would be wonderful." There was no point in pretending that it was anything else--Subaru knew as well as anyone that he needed to be distracted from his worries and his injuries, or he would just brood.

"That's alright," he was quick to reply and quick with a smile. He might not mean it, but perhaps it would be a comfort to the other boy.

"What do you want to play? Cards maybe? There's some board games too, but you might have to show me how they work. I'm not too familiar with them."

Given the circumstances of their first meeting, Subaru wasn't likely to trust anything coming from Fai-san, but that didn't mean he couldn't respond to politeness with politeness. Or rudeness with politeness. Politeness was, of course, Subaru's default response to pretty much everyone. "Cards sounds fine. I don't think I'd be terribly familiar with most of the board games, either." Subaru knew how to play Go and Shogi, and occasionally used them as meditative or divinatory aids, but on the whole he hadn't had much time for games.

"I'll get them then," he chirped and bounced out of his chair to go fetch the cards. They were a little worn, but seemed to work. He picked up a regular set and one marked Uno. He was familiar with the face cards, but the others were new to him.

Without wasting much time, he set both decks in front of Subaru and took his seat again. "Which game did you want to play? I only know a few, like Go Fish or Poker or... oh! Old Maid too."

"Old Maid sounds good." Subaru had played that before, and it was pretty easy. He had a sneaking suspicion that Fai would win, if they managed to play long enough to finish the game, somehow. He would never accuse anyone of cheating without proof, of course, and it was uncharitable to even think it, but Fai had not impressed Subaru with his honesty that night, suffice to say.

"Mm, alright, Old Maid it is then." He scooped up the cards and tapped them from the pack. There were two joker cards, so he tossed out one and started shuffling the other in with the rest.

"It'll go kind of fast with only two people, but maybe we'll be able to play a few times that way," he offered, eager to keep the conversation from becoming too heavy. He started dealing the cards, beginning with Subaru and continuing until they'd all been dealt.

"Sets of two okay?" he asked, picking up his small pile of cards. "Same number, same colors?"

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