"On a horse? With a sword? Or unarmed?" Questions were her initial reply to the man at her left, watching his expression all the while he discarded and drew anew, but letting her gaze shift and filter throughout the room otherwise for it never paid not to be aware of one's surroundings - especially in this place while at cards with gold glittering on the table.
What a fucking fool.
Mismatched eyes had avoided entirely the exact spot where she'd already sighted the new Master of Ships in the guise of pretending that in her world, he no longer existed. A niggling feeling was cause for the hair on the back of neck to prickle and rise when Bart brought up mystery knights in casual conversation - it was odd, but she didn't so much as spare him a glance when she said, "I rode in the Grand."
At least not until he went on to detail his own exploits, in which he described in exacting details that passes in the second round of the joust that she made while riding against Roland Westerling under the standard of the Carons of Nightsong. It was enough to set her brows in furrows over mismatched irises now narrowed upon this man who had never even given his name. “Are you fucking with me? Just who do you think--”
Words were cut short, however, when a flicker of faded crimson was caught in her peripheral, the well-worn and well-played cards only too familiar.
When attentions returned back to the table in earnest it was just in time to watch as the man across from her let his cards slide down his sleeve and disappear for a moment as he drank. Johanna watched them reappear a moment afterwards, sliding back into his palm with ease.
The Marbrand woman rose abruptly, sending her chair back and leaving it teetering. It might have fallen over entirely if not for the wall at her back to catch it. “What the fuck are you playing at?” Her tone, which had never been terribly friendly had darkened considerably as the weight of her gaze was leveled upon the would-be suspect she found in Vikary.
“Are you just that much of a fucking idiot or are you, in fact, a fucking cheat who takes us for the fucking idiots?”