Chapter 34
The eight men at the table forgot about any problem they might have with new members joining the game as soon as they took notes off of the newcomers. Their fortune didn’t last long, however. Of the four that had come that night, Alara quickly noted that Clara was the weakest at the game and took to trying to help her.
It was an easy game. Up to four different decks could be played, and each held its own distinct set of cards. Each player could hold three cards at a time and used these to make bets against the available tiles on any given hand. The object was for one deck to complete the best set of tiles by the time that the first deck ran out of cards to end the round.
Alara didn’t know how many hours they had already spent in the gambling hall. The air was intoxicating, a
