[ The comparison is-- effective, more telling than he's come to expect from Isaac. (Worrying. Warming some small point behind his ribs, all the same.) ]

You've a better head for plots than I. [ Not a dismissal; trust your judgement. ] But it does at least seem unlikely anyone would arrange to lose to me at cards on the off chance the Avereschs would start a two-man Exalted March over it.

[ Which, of course, doesn't rule out a trap more belated in the making. ]

What did they say the money was for?