Essery tried to turn her attention back to the game - but there was something in his voice that made it hard not to look up, to try to read in his face what it was he wasn't saying but that it sounded as if he'd meant.
She couldn't, of course. "I could take your pawn, but then you'd have my bishop," She finally said,moving defensively instead and then draining a good deal of her newest glass of wine.