Private Finished [agodr] A Fair Trade

Ava was just lounging on the grass, and by a picnic table somewhere right from her were sitting two elderly people. One was a man with gray hair and a beard and sturdy build, Ava's brand new partner in this tournament. The other was an elderly lady who had white hair and a rather sagely, tired expression. She yawned and tugged a travel pillow under her neck, one that Ava had given her.
"Hey kiddo, when's this guy going to show up? We've been waiting for 25 minutes."
Ava rolled onto her stomach and shrugged at the older man, for now nicknamed Fred.
"You were the one who wanted to come earlier, that's why we've been waiting for so long."
Fred huffed a bit and crossed his arms.
"It's common sense to come to a meeting earlier than normal."
"Now now, you two. There's nothing wrong with enjoying little outside air. I'm the one being traded here, and I'm completely calm."
The old lady, nicknamed Izzy, said with a low, sleepy tone and leaned her elbows on the table. Both Fred and Ava just huffed and shrugged and resumed waiting.

After a short while Ava and Fred both perked a bit when someone approached them. Ava recognized the dude from when they had talked earlier, and jumped up. With the guy there was a teenage boy, who looked around Ava's age. He could help Ava make acid. That was wicked cool.
"Yo! Nice of you to show up, how's it going?"
Ava grinned and perched her hands on her hips. Behind her Fred had stood up by the table and Izzy was still seated, and observed the pair that had just artive calmly. Both of the regalia nodded in a greeting.

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Fred came to stand by Ava's side when the guy, Sterling was it, and his regalia came over. Izzy merely turned enough so she didn't have to twist her neck to look at them. Ava nodded briskly at Sterling's question and saluted a bit.
"No problem, we came here ridiculously early anyway so it's our fault too."
Ava raised a brow at Fred and as an answer to that Fred just flipped some curls on Ava's face and made her smirk. On the side Izzy smiled a bit at that.

"John, huh? 'Kay, I'll keep calling you that then. Good to meetcha. And these are my regalia, Fred and Izzy. Those are temporary names too, my great naming sense is just crystal clear from them."
Ava snickered and made Fred roll his eyes a bit. Izzy yawned slightly but was observing Sterling with rare interest, and so was Fred.
"I'll just get to the point, but we're here to trade, right? Wanna get on with the challenge? I brought some stuff with me for it."
Ava grinned and gestured over to the picnic table, where there was a bag next to Izzy.

Ava jogged over to the table and snatched her bag from next to Izzy before Sterling sat next to her. Ava circled the table and sat on the opposite side, Fred remained standing, his arms loosely crossed. He was standing little behind Ava in her left side. Ava basically dumped the inside of the bag on the table, it was just three red plastic cups and an orange ball Ava caught with a quick move before it fell off the table. Ava put the cups on the table upside down and toyed with the small ball, looking at Sterling with a small grin.
"You know this game, right? I put the ball under one of the cups, shuffle them and you guess which cup the ball is under. We go, say, three times, and the one who wins more times wins. We can add more rounds if we both rule or suck. Sound good?"

"Great! Then we can cut to the chase. You start this round. I shuffle and you guess. You go three times and then I go three times, who guesses right more often wins."
Ava answered and grinned right back at Sterling. She slipped the ball under the cup on the right and started shuffling, pretty fast but not at high speed yet. She wanted to scope out how good this guy was. After a while she finished, and she knew the ball was under the middle cup.
"'Kay then, guess away."

Sterling guessed right, and Ava lifted the cup with a small smirk, revealing the ball under it. So the guy had sharp eyes, good to know.
"Got it right. That's one for you. Okay then, round two."
Ava put the cup back on top of the ball anf started shuffling. This time it was a lot faster, enough to make the cups look like a blur. Ava even lifted the cups in the middle of the shuffle and moved the ball between cups. Finally she stopped, and even she was not sure which cup the ball was under. She guessed the left one.
"Okay, guess."