“No sovereigns. Go fish.” Peaches said as she scanned her cards. The three of us had taken up the game about half an hour after the others had taken off to find the keys, and it was now an hour into the game itself. Panarena decks have four times as many cards, for one thing, and six suites also. Hearts, spades, diamonds, shamrocks, crowns, and roses.
“Hmm,” Belle sighed, picking one out and looking over her own cards as she received the answer.
“Lana, any hermits?” Peaches asked me.
“Nope. Go fish.” I returned, and Peaches went for her own card, frowning at it. Oh, sovereigns are kings, and hermits are aces. “Got any princes?” I asked. Those are jacks by the way.
“Oh, here,” she replied, handing the jack of roses to me.
“Thanks! How 'bout a five?”
“Go fish.” she immediately replied.
“Hahh...” I groaned, and went card diving. I tried not to smile as I got a complete book of princes, and set them down in the victory pile.
“Hey! Nice!” Belle said.
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“Now she just needs to catch up to your two and my three!” Peaches smirked. Belle had a set of twos and sevens, while Peaches had the empresses, nines, and tens.
“Not even a message, huh?” I sighed as I checked before returning my attention to the game.
“Nope.” Belle shook her head.
“I haven't heard a ding either.” Peaches shrugged. “Guess they're either too busy or there's nothing to report yet.”
“Ehh, true,” I agreed.
“Oh, Lana, if we do manage to get you back to normal--” Belle said, but then the three of us received a message.
“Hm? Oh, it's Jannie's group; they got their first key!” I read aloud.
“Yippee!” Peaches exclaimed.
“Good on them!” Belle nodded. “That leaves, ahm... four more, I think.”
“Plus the one they left with us,” I said, pulling the multi-faceted sphere out of my pocket.
“I'll bet that's the final key.” Peaches said.
“Probably,” I nodded. “What were you gonna ask me, Belle?”
“Hmm?” she looked up. “Oh, I forget now... it probably wasn't important. Anyway! It's your turn!”
“Huh? Oh!” I said. “Hmm... Belle, any sixes?”
“Go fish.”
“Dang it.”
“Pfft!” Peaches softly guffawed as we continued our card game in the Untold Deeps.