[ There's reluctance, obviously. The cards are a lifeline in a place like this, though she's already promised to give them back and, well, he's surprised anyone would call his cards beautiful, of all things. ]
You must not have seen enough of them, if you think that.
[ He says it mostly in jest, amused (even if he isn't smiling), since he sees nothing wrong with them himself, only... they aren't a standard deck, which she'll discover once he takes them back out and spreads the deck like a fan, face up, to hold between them.
They're old, worn with age and marred with yellow, and named in French, drawn on whatever bits of paper had been available at the time; bills, ads torn down to size, random re-used pages torn from books or other places, pasted down onto something firmer to make them more card-like. The art of the cards are, likewise, done by hand and, while not terrible, they were obviously sketched down one time in a rush, only for him to have come back later and finish them up from memory. This has left them about as ragged as the man himself. Unique, too, since from memory alone forced him to provide his own details. ]
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You must not have seen enough of them, if you think that.
[ He says it mostly in jest, amused (even if he isn't smiling), since he sees nothing wrong with them himself, only... they aren't a standard deck, which she'll discover once he takes them back out and spreads the deck like a fan, face up, to hold between them.
They're old, worn with age and marred with yellow, and named in French, drawn on whatever bits of paper had been available at the time; bills, ads torn down to size, random re-used pages torn from books or other places, pasted down onto something firmer to make them more card-like. The art of the cards are, likewise, done by hand and, while not terrible, they were obviously sketched down one time in a rush, only for him to have come back later and finish them up from memory. This has left them about as ragged as the man himself. Unique, too, since from memory alone forced him to provide his own details. ]