Just a another night alone...(open)

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Oh he found her attractive and intriguing to be sure, but as with any beautiful woman. it's best not to stare, as the serpent kept doing. However a smile was given as she brought to light the simple fact that he left off his last name, yet did not do the same to Sabin. Interesting notation to make in that regard, may as well play along.

"Had I thought my surname would be important to you I would have given it in the first." He offered her an apologetic smile. "Please allow me to amend. I am Gamble. Gamble Caine." Ends it with a finishing drink of his jack and coke.

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"Well Gamble Caine it is my pleasure to met you may I see you here more often?" She said as she looked at him her eyes stayed where his were but she never looked into his eye directly out of respect for him. Most humans didnt like it when she touched them or looked in to there eyes. So she respected it for all things she never looked them in the eyes. "And you Sir Sabin is there no more to add to your name ?" She said and gave him a rye smile as she picked on the Snake.

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Sabin Smiled at her good natured ribbing. "Well Isadora my last name is Shaw. In a way i am the preternatual doctor. It allows me to talk to people who normally are turned off from the fact that particluar strand of lycanthrope is reptile in nature. It seems that most everyone is turned off by the the reptile in me."

Sabin looked at Gamble as he said that, he could feel the other man's discomfort. His eyes slid back the Isadora after a few seconds.

Sabin took another swallow of Jack and Ginger Ale. "Man i could really use another, hopefully you taught the bartender well." Sabin signaled the bartender for a new one.

"Well now it is your turn fair lady what about you."

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"Is that a personal request?" At her comment on seeing him more often, his eyes stayed at the center of her face shifting between the curve of her upper lip as a spot between her eyes, offering the illusion of looking at her directly.

Something clicked now at hearing the name Shaw. "You ever been to Nawlons?" It was habit that brought out his real origins and offer proper enunciation for New Orlean at hearing the last name as he looked to the serpent.

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Isadora looked at Gamble and smirked at him. "I was asking for I just started working here as of yesterday and wondered if you came here often. I would like the company for I am going to be working here for awhile it would be refreshing to have intelligent conversion over having every tom, Dick, Or Harry trying to take me home. They all want to bed a vamp..As they say" She said in a chuckle at the last part as moved the strain of hair that fell into her face to behind her ear as her eyes moved to Sabin.

"Just Isadora, I don't remember my last name been around to long to remember something as trivial as that but I came from White Spring Florida." She said to him her eyes falling on him as she avoided looking straight into them also, but it was so hard for her not to. When he said reptile the image of a snake appeared in her minds eyes " I never understood why people are 'turn off' as you say by that reptile. The sserpent is the most elegant animal out there, The way they move is like a ssmall dance. The colors and patterns are so vast that they are natures masterpieces." She said and for the first time there was a passion in her voice and in her eyes. "I have always found them fascinating even before I was turned." Her tongue darted to her lips as if she was wetting them.

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Sabin eyes snapped to Gamble. His shields raised his voice was cold as the embrace of the dead. Sabin was a very careful person he did not allow people to follow him or know things about him that he did not know. Fear brought Sabin on nerves on edge.

“How did you know I was New Orleans? Were you in New Orleans what brings you to Chicago?”
Sabin wondered if this Wereleopard was in some way responsible for Heiro being in such dire straits. Could he had shot Heiro with a assault rifle as a message to him. or perhaps it was for the new lion.
His body was being pulled to Isadora, but his mind and sense of self preservation focused completely on Gamble.
He did not look like a hitman but at the same time a hitman could disappear into a crowd of one. the should be unremarkable or as close to completely forgettable as possible. And Gamble definitely was that

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Sabin moved his chair closer to Isadora. Slowly almost carefully. Sabin lean into Isadora and whispered softly.
“My scales are only grey from what I can understand. It is not something that I think too much of when I am in different forms.”
Sabin was trying to calm down, in the most incremental of ways he felt his muscles relax one at a time. His fears had took him on a trip as per normal. When you live as a being of secrets and someone knows what you do not. Fear is the only response that will keep you alive.

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Isadora stepped between the men and was able to put a hand on the middle of both their chest as she clicked her tongue as one would to children they were correcting. "Boys let me say this once please, I really would not like to have to drag you both out by your tails. " She said in a calm even voice, her accent thick again. She looked into Sabins face then into Gambles. "Do we have a understanding? I want to nip this in the butt be fore it happens just in case." She said it sweetly and kindly but there was no doubt she was the one in charge here. Her eyes fell on Sabin again if you look closely into hers there was a snake like look to them nothing major but there if you looked hard enough. She smiled at him and mouthed that he was safe there, she ment ever word she said.

Moving closer to Sabin as she whispered."I find grey one of the best colors do to the way it looks. It blends with almost everything and the color looks great on my skin tone. " She smiled a soft smile as she motion to the bar tender to bring another drink over to him. As the tender did she took it and handed it to him slipping the other cup out of his hands.

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Sabin was taking a deep breath. He was wound too tight, with all the things that was going on in his life, he was looking for ghost. He needed to hold on to something. He looked at Isadora, listened to her words. He wanted to believe that she would keep him safe while he was there. He decided to lower his guard she offered comfort that Sabin needed right now.

“You are right. I am okay now. I am sorry. ”
Sabin held out his hand to Gamble.
“Can we drop the last two minutes. And pick up from now.”

While he knew that he could be either Gamble was either an assassin who is playing his hand, or someone that just got caught up in Sabin’s fear.

Sabin smiled as he heard what she whispered. That definitely changed the tempo of the conversation
“One day we can see just how good you look in grey.” As he took the cup from her.

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Isadora looked at Sabin and smiled as she almost blushed, placing the used cup in the bar tender hands and waved her off as she stood there. Sighing as she wondered what was going to happen next, and then she heard what Sabin said and laughed that musical laughter of hers. “Well that is a offer I may have to take up one day.” She said as she twisted his words as she winked back at him, maybe she should show him her ‘pet’. “You should see my baby” she said as she looked at him and smiled. “It is beauty and she is my best friend.”Looking at Gamble as she smiled at him too and wondered what he was thinking about at this moment in time.