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If...If y-y-you know the outcome, wh-why do you keep d-d-doing the test?

Masochism, I guess. Here, you try.

[He holds them out.]

They aren't weighted, I swear.

[She rolls, landing a one and a two.]

Th-th-they say the d-definition of insanity's doing the s-s-same thing over and over, expecting d-different results.

I'll admit to being a bit cracked, I supposed.

[He smiles at her roll.]

I'm just glad I can keeping my influence down when it's not my hand, now. Once I went to Vegas, and on bad days every slot machine for blocks around came up 666, on good days 777. People couldn't decide if I was the second coming or the antichrist.

I'm n-n-not religious, I'd s-simply have seen you as...[a freak]

...an oddity.

[He chuckles.]

We were very, very odd.

Y-you yourself m-m-might still be.

[The delicate flower opens up enough to tease.]

I don't know. I think I've settled down enough to qualify for just one very.

S-see, most people th-think I'm p-p-pathetic, not odd.

Most people are blind.

[He isn't just being sweet; he pretty much believes that.]

I know. I've d-definitely used it to m-my advantage.