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At the question a genuine grin flashed up onto her lips, what game did she want to play? As if anyone had to ask! For a while she simply smiled, glanced at the cards and then back towards him in a peculiar manner before her smile seemed to grow and she prepared her short, yet important reply (or at least she considered it important).

"Poker." She chirped, canting her head to the side as she watched the shuffling - poker was a game she had always enjoyed because she was rather good at it, she would elaborate on how she was but well; she was, "It's the only decent card game to play -" She explained, finally dropping her dislike towards him as she leaned forward in preparation for the game, "Plus, it takes a decent amount of intelligence to play!"

Now she would say what metal he was really made of.

With a nod the woman lifted approximately half of the cards from the top of the pile and set them beside the other, she then retracted her hand and placed it within her lap as she waited patiently for the cards to be squared and then dealt. She hadn't played this game in a long while due to being busy but now she would see how rusty she had become.

"You know, you never did ask my name." She mused, glancing across at Roger with a hint of a bemused smile appearing in place of her grin, "Too scared of this individual to ask her identity were you, or did you not care?" She enquired at last.

"Sometimes knowing a person's name helps to eleviate misunderstandings," She replied as she glanced briefly at her cards and placed her free hand into a pouch in her waist - she extracted a few coins and tossed them in as though it were the most natural thing in the world to do and released a sigh, "Sometimes knowing a person's name also makes you feel more comfortable." She continued, raising a brow as she glanced at her cards again - yep, she was rusty.

"It's Dune." She murmured at last without even asking if he truly wanted to know it, "And I specialise in espionage - does that quell some of your misconceptions by any chance?" She enquired with a raised brow.

"No, neither do I," She murmured at last as she lifted her card, quirked a brow in a seemingly satisfied manner and tossed another coin into the centre, she seemed more interested in continuing to talk however and continued to do so, "But to be entirely honest I should be out working - amusing how something like this can drag you away from your best source of income and into the middle of nowhere whereby you are stalked by an unknown man and encounter a very strange crystal through a window." She mused and sat back once more, her gaze drifting along the walls in a distracted manner.

"Have to admit that it is a nice place though."

//*Bags this post for later* I'll be back in a while I have a few things to do.

{ Enter from Outside the Crystal Temple }

The second he stepped into the Main Hall, Eidos wanted to clean. Yes, he knew large forgotten buildings tended to accumulate dust and cobwebs, and yes, he was aware he lacked all cleaning utensils, but nevertheless he was somewhat of a neat freak and this room was not tidy.

Ah well, at least the webs were mostly shadowed and ergo easily overlooked. What was far less easy to overlook was the sight of two people sitting on a brand new carpet and playing cards. Uh...okay...

"Hey," he greeted simply as he walked closer to them, pausing a respectable distance away.

Roger, jumped at the voice, and Lady Dune's reaction, his hands scooping up the pot, his pouch of coins, and the cards, stuffing them quickly into his pockets. He seemed to have had a measure of practice at this, as the whole thing took about one and a half seconds, without even knicking a single card.

The man stood, and ran a few steps away from Dune and the stranger, towards the stairs where he knew not a certain ghost lurked. He was trembling slightly, his heart racing, and he looked about ready to bolt.