Many things in Tampa are nice. They visit them. And then it is time to go home. Except Alex who ambiguously lives here now.

They thank him for the tour.

"No problem, anytime."

"We'll probably eventually take you up on that!" And back to Tirion she is going to give herself like three days off.

...unless Isabella wants to play Governor.

Isabella kinda wants to play Governor.

Sounds fun!

Whee.

The best strategy is still to condition all her plans on minutia of Isabella's body language.

Isabella actually feels like cheating less today. See how far she can get like that. Not that she's going to tell Maitimë that or anything.

She might notice her putting away fewer trays of food, but it's still safest to condition all her plans that way.

But this does mean that she's not optimizing for the very best plans, but one of the top contenders depending on whether Isabella crosses her legs or not. Might be exploitable.

Might be. Also the minutia of Isabella's body language might be distracting or something.

That, Isabella doesn't know to exploit specifically; but she does notice an opening here and there...

She's pretty brilliant even when not cheating much.

Yes she is.

Shame about literally everything.

Yup. Isabella will just be over here being brilliant and female and advertising with most of her visible features that she probably expects intimate partners to kneel at her.

There are six billion humans this is in effect a randomly selected one. 

She really needs to focus on this game or she's going to lose embarrassingly badly.

She might lose anyway. But probably not as embarrassingly badly if she pays attention and catches at least some of Isabella's converging plans.

Oh, the problem here is not paying insufficient atttention.

To the game?

Noticing when Isabella's up to something is totally part of the game.

She will very definitely notice when Isabella decides she's won.

It's not subtle.

"I didn't even cheat except in turn twelve. I did cheat in turn twelve, I had no idea where you were going with that one."