I'll have to introduce you to some other games with them, sometime.

[deft hands gather the remaining cards together, cutting the deck and shuffling once and again.]

Remember which card you had, and place it back into the deck now, wherever you like.

[once again, Vael fans out the cards for her. Once she's placed the card back in the deck, he's quick to shuffle them again. This time, though, it's clearly more for show - the cards seem to flip and slide over one another or snap through the air like lively little soldiers, finally coming to a stop laid in a perfect pile.]

Watch closely now. This trick is a little finicky, so give me a moment...

[hands clapping together over the cards, he... lays them flat, as if there's not an entire deck of cards between his palms. And when he lifts them again--]

... ah. [held in his upright hand is a flower. A pretty peony, its delicate petals curled closed in the center.] Well. This is embarrassing. I suppose I'll have to have you take that and open its petals.

[When she does take it, if she does take it and part the petals, Ayaka will find the ace of diamonds tucked away in its center.]