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Bet wandered the halls of the Temple, lost in thought, as his hooves and paws touched cold stone floor, in his mind he remembered when he had first roamed these halls as a young adult.

It was his first time visiting the Temple and bored with looking at the different alters and shrines, they were all the same in his eyes, he and found the most interesting thing.

In an out of the way corrador, after crawling through a broken doorway he found it. A low alter of stone upon which were arranged pebbles. On closer inspection of the pebbles Bet found that many of them were flat with six sides and each one had small dots. There was also a container of sorts, he was unsure what it should hold but it was empty now laying on it's side near the pebbles. He had been a shy youth and was unsure at the time if he should disturb the setup. Was this infact the shrine of a forgotten god?

Day by day he returned to this out of the way alter and he explored the area around it finding more of the pebbles, gold coins and other old and discarded objects of chance, of gambling. And as the days passed he began to understand what he had been told of the old gods. This was an alter of sorts, to games of chance that had been played here.

As he was making his way down to visit his shrine he was happy to note that the area was in better shape now than it had been back then, rubble had been cleared away and he felt a breeze flow through, the air was not stagnet as it was then, his god exisited here.

((I hope that this is okay, I'm not sure if I have the feel for Bet and the Temple yet, if anything should be changed or whatever please let me know, I'm happy to have Bet and look forward to lots of rp with him and with you.))

((Sorry it took me so long to reply~ ^^; ))

Bet grinned at the mallard malu, why, when he had passed by many a time had he not given greetings to another malu, he was not shy nor rude nor indifferent, maybe there was no reason. Bet lowered his head and dropped from his mouth a pair of stone dice, he noted the numbers that came up before lifting his head again.

"Yes, the god of games of chance dwells here. If you are interested you may come and visit with me." His voice was deep but soft.

Bet lowered his head and picked up the stones, his eyes held the other male’s gaze as he turned his body, beckoning him to follow. "Come?" he queried past the stones in his teeth. "Bet." he added his name as an afterthought.

A deep sigh dragged itself slowly from the nostrils of the freckled femme as paws and hooves moved her dryly through the temple's halls. She could hear water some where, but it failed in touching her interests. Most things did these days, actually...

Pale eyes wandered slowly, taking in the glimpses of shrines or other random things in crumbling rooms that she passed. There were so many shrines these days, but Enoa had yet to run into many Malu. Her kind was skittish, it seemed, and odd...so very odd. They were like the wind that carried her golden and amber leaves across the ground; there, but unseen...mysterious, yet so very annoying from time to time.

Continueing on, head slightly hung, her ears soon twitched and perked themselves due to an echo that bounced off the stone from somewhere ahead. Voices? Maybe so...

Softening her step, the femme gave a silky trot until the voices became clearer and louder. Curiosity had already grabbed the Malu's heart and lead her to peek just inside on of the rooms of the temple. Eyes gazed at the three males; one who she remembered as Mythos, but the others were unknown to her.

Bet turned to face the newcomers, though in their eyes he must be the new comer and not them, he lowered his head and dropped the stone twins noting the numbers that came up - as he always did, before lifting his head to greet the others.

This was his arena, or so he thought, he might as well start introductions if many were going to gather here, "Greetings," he smiled warmly, his voice low in the echoing chamber, "I am Bet, all are welcome to enter here, but tread lightly this area is not as safe as I wish it to be, it is just I clearing the rubble away."

In a corner of the bare room stood the 'table', the dice and many offerings that Bet had scrounged from the dark corners and crevices, all arranged neatly and carefully in Bet's eyes, to an unknowing onlooker it might seem to be quite a random display but to Bet this was his precious shrine.

(post in responce to azumi, i want other to be free to join and continue, but i dont want to wait so much either ^^')

Bet's eyes fell upon the young female with the green tuft of fur above her soft eyes, he looked in the direction her paw was pointing and understood. "Dice. Coins. Cups."

He leaned down his head and retreved the pair he had droped to speak and moved to the table. He set them down taking care to not drop or roll them and then he took up the 8 sided pair, (he liked these die because of their interesting shape, he also liked the four sided ones,) he turned to Enoa and placed them on the floor before her. "Would you like to play with them? I think it's fun to try and guess what numbers will come up."

Bet laughed gently as he settled himself on the stone floor, he crossed his front legs and half rested his head on them, lifting it when he spoke or to look to the others that had come into his realm, maybe they would want to play as well.

"It's very simple, but the rules can very as much as the players." He began in his deep soft voice, loud enough for all to hear but not over powering to the youth before him, "The dice have eight sides, on each side is a mark that represents a number, one to eight, so when you drop or roll the die there is a chance that any of the numbers will come up, and when you drop two, you will usually get two different numbers, but there is a chance that you will get the same number on both dice." As he spoke he brushed the dice on the floor with a paw rolling them a little, and when he was silent he leaned his body forward and took up one of the stones in his mouth and then dropped it, it came up a six. "You try, see if you can match mine, that's one way, or roll a higher number, that would be another way."

"Indeed."
Bet grinned. "If we had bet that you would roll a higher number than me you would have won something; that is a game of chance. Though I might just say you have beginners luck." His deep voice was serious, to him this game was not just a game, but when he spoke again his voice was soft once more, "I guess I can give you something, what do you say?"

Bet kept his face flat but inside he wanted to laugh, Well that's what you get for teasing the girl!

"Well if you won't take something, will you accept a gift? I'd like it, if you want, you can have that die. These games are all about luck, chance. I've not met anyone yet with skills at dice tossing."

There was a short time when Bet had thought that he possessed some skill with a dark colored die that he had found, it was laying among the shards of a broken cup a six sided die, high number up, whenever he would roll it, it would almost always come up six.

"Let's play again, you roll and I'll see if I can't beat you this time."