"Four is a good number for a starter game." The fact he actually liked the people Ava was suggesting was just a bonus on top of everything else. He'd have to suggest it to the other two and see if he could convince them all to come over to his trailer for a game....and also keep everyone from possibly killing each other.

Dex grinned at watching how Ava was easily impressed with such a simple card trick. "It's magic!" He was such an utter nerd, picking up how to do card tricks as a teenager simply because he'd gotten fixated on them for a while the same way he'd done with baseball. At least now they'd finally come in handy.

He searched for a moment until he found the card he was looking for in the deck and held it up for her to see. "The Ace of Spades. My lucky card. Now watch it teleport." He shuffled it into the middle of the deck. Or at least that's what he made it look like. The trick was to square up two cards exactly, leaving the bottom card, in this case the Ace of Spades face down so it now lay on top of the deck while the hidden top card was the one who got shuffled into the deck. The illusion made it seem like somehow the card had magically migrated from the middle of the deck back to the top once again. He held the deck out to Ava. "Go on. See what the top card is." It would indeed be the Ace of Spades when she picked it up.