The Art of the Tell

She frowned as she guessed wrong, and then listened with curious interest to Horo's advice for winning a dice game, that, on its face, had seemed nothing more than mere chance. So this was how ordinary humans got by without any magic, she thought. Clever techniques and strategy. She could read facial expressions about as well as the average person, but she realized what Horo described was something more deeper and practised; an arcane skill that she imagined he must have picked up and developed due to his shop keeper profession of dealing with customers and making sales, which he must have eventually saw would give him an edge in a lot of other different social situations, such as gambling. She thought about giving it a go herself to see just how well she could do, but decided this might be problematic. "If they recognized my true nature, I'm afraid the croupiers at the gambling house would suspect I was not playing fair," she remarked. "They're probably very wary of those with magical gifts, and understandably so. But the way you can identify tells on someone's face like that sounds almost like magic to me." She smiled. "I'd like to see that in action sometime."