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It was a rather nice day to be out in the meadows. A slight overcast kept the sun from being too bright against the snow, and the soft blowing winds were warm. As much as Tay enjoyed their home in the forest, it was very nice to hang out in the vast openness once and awhile and gave a lot of space for the kids to play. He sat gently in the snow with Eiriol, playing solitaire to pass some of the time. Eiri watched trying to really figure out the game until Suli came by. He wanted very much to play with his brother.

Tay smiled still looking at his game when he felt Julia. He then looked at the cards and scooped them up.
"Dead game..." he muttered.

With the cards picked up Eiri looked up at Suli and smiled. He walked up and tapped Suli's head then took a few steps back.
"Hey Suli?" he said with a grin, "Tag! You're it!"
Eiri had a lot of his father in him in that once he was comfortable he was really quite friendly and fun. He didn't have much of the cat's younger daredevil side but that was for the best, it'd keep him out of trouble.

Tabor smiled, "Cute," he chuckled, "Hopefully I have better luck. I like getting to mix up the cards when I win."

Eiri ran through the snow trying to keep away from his brother. Luckily as far as speed went they were pretty evenly matched making the game more enjoyable...well for Eiri anyway. It was going well too until Eiri's foot caught a rock under the snow. He tripped, rolling forward and sat there for a moment, stunned.

((Funny thing is, me using Julia's color for Eiri was a total accident))

Tabor smiled, "Certainly." He started to shuffle the cards, looking at her as he did so, "What would you like to play?"

Eiri looked at his brother for a moment, then shook his head and stood up, some of the snow sticking to his fur.
"You okay Suli?" he asked, a small chuckle coming out.

Tabor thought about it. Most of the games he knew required more than two people to really be fun. That ruled out some of the more competitive gambling ones.
"Black Jack, Old Maid, or we could play a matching game." He suggested finally, generally just happy to get to play cards with Julia.

Eiriol started to explain that there must be something under the snow that he tripped on when he was tagged by his brother.
"Hey," he laughed, amused that Suli had thought quicker than himself on that one. He quickly got up and started the chase.

"Of course I'll teach you," Tay replied with a smile. He removed the ace of clubs from the cards then pulled out the ace of spades and showed it to her.
"I'm going to deal out the cards. The point of the game is to get rid of them all but if you have this one it has no match so you lose if you have it." he picked the deck back up and removed all of the face cards and all of the twos to make the deck a bit smaller, then dealt himself 16 and Julia 17 cards.

Eiri chased after his brother best he could. He followed around the circle then kept going for a second when his brother went and dashed straight off. He paused then went running for him again.

Tabor half nodded, "Yes but the card can switch hands," he explained, "we each take turns taking one card randomly from the other's hand. Sometimes you'll draw a matching card, sometimes you'll draw the ace of spades. It's the one who's stuck with the ace at the end that loses."

Eiri watched his brother slow down and gave one last sprint forward tagging him before slowing himself and finally stopping a few feet ahead, also tired. Besides being tired though, he wore a big grin on his face. He had been having fun.