That’s why, when Xvim threw the next marble, Zorian quickly wrenched the blindfold off to see what the deal was.
The marble flew straight over his head.
That son of a b***h!
“I didn’t say you could take the blindfold off,” Xvim calmly said, as if Zorian hadn’t just caught him red-handed.
“That’s cheating!” Zorian protested, completely ignoring Xvim’s remark. “Of course I couldn’t guess correctly if you’re not even going to abide by your own rules!”
“You’re not supposed to guess, Mister Kazinski,” Xvim said unapologetically. “You’re supposed to sense.”
“I was sensing,” Zorian ground out.
“If you were, you would have realized what was happening far sooner, and you would not have needed to take off the blindfold to identify the problem,” Xvim said. “Now stop wasting your time an
