nikolas vaisey doesn't need a broom to fly (besserwisser) wrote in wished,
Daphne's laugh inexplicably startled Nikolas, likely because he had no idea what was so funny. It took a few moments to figure out that it was his dealings with the pipe, and he grinned.
"You know, it just might be a challenge, because while this may look silly to you, it actually lends me quite a bit of concentration," he replied, taking a saucy tone and wagging his head back and forth in her direction. "And I, similarly, never lose, so I guess that means this game will never end. Now then..."
Pipe between teeth, smoke rising lazily, Nikolas tried to look intense as he shuffled the cards and split the deck between himself and Daphne. This could of course have been done with much more finesse than he was managing, and perhaps on a better day he would indeed have proven skilled - right now, however, the cards were barely shuffled, and when they landed in on the ground they had a tendency to skirt away, either due to the breeze or because Nikolas was carelessly tossing them down.
As he began to set up five piles in front of him, he looked over to make sure Daphne was doing her own correctly. "You know what to do, yeah?"