Chapter 143

"I'd just read..." He laughed. "Ah...same." I smiled. "You don't?" Mercury started, walking over to his cabinets, "Want to have a bit of fun before you get involved with the masters?" "What do you mean?" I asked. He pulled out a board game and plopped it onto the table. I felt a sudden sense of relief. I mean, if he wanted to do it I wouldn't have said no, but...Mercury made me feel like I was dealing with someone of immense mystical power. He had a way of getting inside my head with such little effort. How he differed from Richard is that he was a ton more tenacious. Richard needed someone to drive him, someone to fight for. Mercury was more like me, in the aspect that if pushed he'd push back twice as hard. To see that we shared this quality was jarring. He opened the board game and began dispersing the cards. He took out two oddly designed clay cups filled with metallic coins placing them in the center of each board. "This game is called Jedidiah. Basically the point of this game is