Fandom: Twisted Wonderland
Featured: Ace Trappola & Reader
Rating: General
Word Count: 1060 words
Premise: This was supposed to be a study session, but Ace has pulled a deck of cards from his pocket and set himself to the art of distraction. It seems as though you have a thing or two to learn, yourself.
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With the flick of his wrist and the pinch of his fingers at their edges, you watch in fascination as Ace shuffles the playing cards from one hand to the next. They make a pleasant, if muted sound, cardstock rippling as they come to rest between his waiting palm. He doesn’t give you much time to track his movements, all curving grins and crinkled eyes, shifting the cards back to the tabletop.
He doesn’t need to look to see what he’s doing, the movements long practiced since his dad had shown him how to shuffle all those years ago. But for your sake he glances down, playing to the plain curiosity on your face.
“That was a simple transfer, y’know. It’s the same technique as this,” Ace says, splitting the cards into two stacks. Sensing the questions looming, not too different from the different things you’d been asking him for the past ten minutes or so, he continues, “This is called the riffle. It’s an easier shuffle, sure, and kind of hard for the dealer to make any sneaky moves.”
“And yet,” you mumble, lips formed in a mock pout, “You somehow manage to stack the deck anyways when we’re playing.”
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