The Bear's Cave - Sedona Station, Baffin (Formerly Freeport 14, Yukon)

[Marburg]

Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, a man with a shaved head and scraggly two-foot long beard sits across the table from another man and holds up a Jack of Spades.

"Is this your card?" he asks.

"Nope" replied the other.

"Ah. my mistake then. It must be this card" he said as he drew the Two of Clubs.

"Again. Nope." said the other.

"Hmmm...I must've screwed up the trick somewhere"

The bearded man slid his chair next to the other and started rifling through the deck

"Is this it?"

"Nope"

"This one?'

"No!"

"Then it's absolutely this one, no doubt about it!" the disheveled Gaian said with absolute confidence as he once again exposed the wrong card.

"Again. No!!"

"Well Goddamnit!!" said the the Gaian as he stood and walked back to his side of the table, slamming the cards on the table in complete frustration.

"Just give me one more chance!" he requested to the other, after taking a calming breath.

He reaches into his coat pocket & pulled out its contents.

"Is this your wallet?"

The other man contorts into an expression of angry recognition.

"Go ahead. Check & make sure it's yours." the Gaian said, as he tossed it over to the other man.

"It's empty!" roared the man.

The Gaian flashed a warm smile and a sing-song voice:

"Ta-Daaa!"

It was pretty much at that moment that things went abit south on that side of the room.

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