Chapter 18
A New Prize
“Your throw, Gordon,” said Sandrell.
“A six?” said Aline, “Well, you're beating us all on this battlefield, my king.”
“Good that we are only playing for seashells, I would have no more coin for our journey, otherwise,” said Loren.
Gordon smiled. “I've been playing card dice with my friends since I was little. It's the first time in days I felt like I can do anything right.”
Sandrell handed him six more cards from the triangle stack. “Make your wager.”
Gordon pushed ten small seashells into the middle of the table. He picked up his large hand of cards and smiled.
Aline threw the dice, cursing when she rolled a one. Sandrell gave her a triangle shaped card, “Make your wager.”
Aline pushed all of her shells in the middle of the table and stood up to make her po
