[Rail IC] Academy City

[Anyr]

When Jane glanced up again she would find that her feeling of being watched wasn't entirely in her head. For some reason both Jirou and the anonymous player were staring at her with a slightly unnerving intensity, as if waiting for some sort of signal. Eventually Jirou tapped the table expectantly, pointing to the fourteen tiles that had at some point appeared in front of Jane.

"Kiyoshi Jirou. [You gonna deal?]"

It so happened that Jane had been chosen as East for this round, and thus the first tile of the game would be played by her. The reason everyone was staring was because (thanks to Jirou's chronic inability to pay attention) nobody except Cale knew that she didn't know the rules. And thus their eyes continued to bore into her skull, silently compelling her to deal the tile...