He pulls out a 1lv note, and throws it onto the table. "Let's up the ante. That says that you can't a ball after the cue ball rebounds off two other balls first."
"I'll wager that I can." She says, with an air of total resolve, perhaps belying her actual skill in pool. This is actually a physical reaction someone who gets to know her will soon learn to recognize-the unblinking, concentrated stare, the paling of her skin, the tightening of her slender shoulders and neck, her facial features set in stone. It's hard to understand unless you've been in a war-it's the same sort of face a soldier gets right before they charge an enemy soldier with their bayonet. Do or die.
It was, in many parts, this absurd level of self confidence that had already gotten her to the trouble she has had in life. Many others would have died in her place, but she had gone on, gritting her teeth-step after bloody step, not ever thinking about stopping or going back. Katrine rarely allows for a moment of doubt or indecision to slow her aim or her actions, and while this allows her to succeed where many others would fail, it also makes it harder for to question the
why of a thing. Failure brings self chastisement, but not total wisdom. She always believes the sole cause of her failures is herself, not the fact that some things are unwise or impossible to attempt in the first place.
This is, poetically, her mortal flaw-her one grand weakness, the dire imperfection she was built with, that will one day statistically be the cause of her death. One day, a gap will appear before her that she cannot hesitate to leap, and that gap will be her lonely grave.
But, for now, all her concentration is on the shot she
must make.
Action: Attempt crazy trick shot to presumably win the game!((OOC: And with the hopefully epic sounding denouement, I'm out.
Literally, from the forums, for maybe for 3 days. Holidays!
I'll hand things off to you My Name is Immaterial, just have Katrine follow whatever you have planned, you have my permission to move her about and such as plot dictates. If you need motivation, she'll back you up as a partner in whatever you decide.))