<div class="floatleft">(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/056/6/f/jiroph_by_pixeldust86-d8jjoji.jpg)</div>Jiroph didn't want his own somber mood to bring her down which was why he wanted to try, as well as for the memory of Erica. It was good to see her mood uplift. Especially so quickly and as he found out, in a quite spontaneous way. He opened his eyes a bit wider as she got on the table and then walked towards him. That was quite appealing. Seeing her like that and in a happy mood as well. He could afford a small smile back at her and managed to do so, without even forcing it. When she pulled out a deck of cards the first thing that popped into his mind was that there should be 52 of them, 4 of each card and 13 of each type.<strong>"I want to unwind."</strong>The answer was simple enough and he said it while maintaining his happy expression.<strong>"Teach me then. We don't distract ourselves to play games like this."</strong><br/><br/>The second he said that he realized his mistake.<em>We.</em>he thought, feeling foolish that he had managed to let that slip. He supposed that the slip up required some explanation, and quickly came to one that would leave his background ambiguous still, for the sake of those possible listeners. With a soft sigh he explained,<strong>"By we I mean the people I train with."</strong>He watched her hands as the cards came from the cover and then she mixed them up in quite complicated and stunning ways. He had very little experience with card games, but he was extremely observant and learned quite fast if she'd choose to teach him one or two.<br/><br/>He wasn't kept down for too long though, true to his word he avoided becoming serious yet again, and as a suggestion said,<strong>"Perhaps after a game, or more, we can talk somewhere more private than here where all can be heard by a prying ear."</strong>It wasn't that he had to stay completely anonymous and mysterious, it was the idea of perhaps revealing to half of the tavern that kept him from sharing with her. And once they were somewhere private there was no telling what could happen with this spritely young goblin and himself.