25 The Discussion

The financial capital within reach that they could squander was pitifully small, and so they had to wrack their brains. Their card play couldn't be very long, but it had to draw people in, which as far as Copper was concerned was a rather difficult challenge. He wrote and he wrote, and he revised and he revised.

Although he hadn't started the work of card making, Chen Mu hadn't let up either, as he was already making all kinds of changes to the design in his head. Although the card play wouldn't be complex, increasing its expressive power was still a knotty problem. Their biggest problem was that they didn't have any spare money handy for him to experiment.