Caged Bird | Chapter One
At 2:00 AM, Cassius Fulton watches a poker game in one of the private rooms of his casino. He watches each of the rich old men put money in the pot, and ten minutes into the game, two have become intimidated and folded. The last two stare each other down. Even from the window 30 feet above, Cass can tell that one was bluffing his ass off. He can't help a smirk as the bluffer wins, and the other man pulls his hair in frustration, realizing that if he hadn't folded, he would've won. By 2:30 AM, Cass becomes bored of watching games from above and hurries downstairs, asking one of the dealers to switch with him. He deals 15 games and guesses the winners, the bluffers, and the cheaters correctly 15 times. As a policy, he lets what he deems to be clever cheating go and screws over the stupider cheaters, dealing them unlucky cards. Who was to get angry at him? It was his casino, after all. At 5:00 AM, he leaves the casino and heads to the parking l...