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[quote][color=04ed42]”My dad had a saying… a philosophy, if you will. You see… all of us are playing the same game, sitting at different tables with the same dealer. We get dealt our own cards. Some hands are good, some are bad, but you can’t change them out.”[/color]

[color=04ed42]”But the game always ends the same. You can play it safe, keep from taking risks. Bet the minimum, don’t get greedy. You might outlast a lot of players that way. But that’s not how the game was meant to be played.”[/color][/quote]

Marlen took a contemplative sip from their water bottle, while this guy startled rambling about life and poker hands. The longer they listened, the more a smirk grew on their face, which quickly became a full-on grin. This guy [i]got it.[/i] Life [i]was[/i] too damn short to hedge bets and sit on the fence. Marlen learned that a long time ago, back when they were a kid- Just fucking [i]do[/i] the things that are worth doing. That's why they're never easy.

[quote][color=04ed42]"Just looking to enjoy my night without ruffling any more feathers."[/color][/quote]

[color=87E3FF]"Yeah... Reasonable, I think,"[/color] They commented, without even reacting to the cigarette smoking being blown around. [color=87E3FF]"I remember being... seventeen, scared of the world and not knowing which was was up. You'd think having a god hanging over your shoulder makes taking risks easier, turns out they don't really help much when they just want you to figure that stuff out yourself."[/color] One time, they nearly got kidnapped off the streets because a cop [i]really[/i] didn't like that Marlen had said they didn't have a home, despite toting a guitar around. The only reason they weren't arrested then are there was because no one thought Marlen's gangly ass would have smacked the living shit out of the man with it, ran like hell and throw a pan flute in another direction to cause a noise that distracted the son of a bitch. What was the point of life if no one was going to live it?

[color=87E3FF]"But..."[/color] They turned around, back to the bar, and looked over at Trinity who had chimed in. [color=87E3FF]"How many people just got here, and are doing... [i]That?"[/i][/color] They nodded their head in the direction of Blair, who had just been getting busy as all fuck right in front of the gods and everybody. [color=87E3FF]"I mean, Apollo sure never told me we were getting up to that on night number one. I was [i]just[/i] telling some stiff fellow how I didn't know there were this many of us on the whole planet. You'd think they're trying to do something about that up on the mountain."[/color] Marlen wasn't convinced there wasn't something in the wine and vodka and whatever the fuck else was up on the shelves. Hell, maybe Dionysus was here tonight and had a bet with Aphrodite to see who could cause as many unintended pregnancies as possible or some shit.

It seemed a bit weird when the gods had siblings of their own. Zeus and Hades were brothers, weren't they? Were they all just going to segregate based on that, and wear badges or something to denote that? 

Or maybe tomorrow, everyone would stop trying to fuck everything that moved. [i]Maybe.[/i]

[color=87E3FF]"It's not like we're in a crazy sex cult or anything, are we? That'd be pretty weird... Anyway, no hangovers for me, thank you very much. Name's Marlen, cool to meet you both."[/color]

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