My friend back home.

[No, no, why would you ask that? Now he'll never shut up!]

He's great at cards--he pretty much always wins at any game, even against me or his brothers or Claire. Of course, he cheats a lot, too. One time he-

[He notices that Crow's stalled, and so his rambling comes to a premature halt. He reaches over and points to the leftover cards at the top.]

Once you get stuck you can start drawin' cards from this deck. You can draw 'em one at a time, but most people go by threes to make it a bit harder.