"Liege, we have eradicated the other Abernathy scattered on Titanora," Regina informed the young man sitting across a chessboard.
He was engaged in a game with a woman dressed in black, her eyes a deeper shade of the same hue as Regina's and the man.
"It's been a very long time since I last played this game. You can expect some mistakes," Drishti said, glancing at the board. It had been over two hundred years since she had lost interest in chess, but this young man was rekindling her old passion.
"Lady Drishti, I assure you, this is the first time I've played this game in this life," Ryuk replied, moving a chess piece with the same intense focus as Drishti. He noted how she was already preparing a backup strategy, anticipating her own possible defeat by shielding it by her lack of recent practice.
[Host, shouldn't you stop playing with words? You are about to lose.]
