44 pulls up a chair for herself and then gets her own food; she sits, and takes a few sips of the broth. She seems disinterested in it. "Before...everything, some friends got me into this game. Magic: the Gathering, like if poker and chess had an illegal love child raised by loan sharks. A literal drug addiction is cheaper than that game and I'm not joking."

"The game goes like this: everyone has twenty life, and a deck. Life to zero, or deck to zero, and you lose. My strategy involved a lot of burning my own life to pay for cards and abilities. Riddle me this, O handsome one: why?"