Alalay Fiction per Chance  - Land of Snails turn 2 - Single hand full! Screamed the miner. - It's down, it's down... The one keeping the score happily showed it at the moment all the glasses clashed while everyone exclaimed "salud!" to celebrate the throw, but at the same time they thought on the golden belly.

Those who play generala and alalay always drink when a player hits the belly on one throw of the dice. This time they drunk twice as they missed to drink to the previous throw that was also single hand. This situation does not occur often, and if it does it is said "good luck at the game but bad luck at love." That expression was perfect for the father and mother, and maybe even for the miner too (he was ugly though successful, he did not starve but was not "successful").

These first two plays worried the other team, for with two more good throws the game would be won, all they need is a served poker and a big one and they would have a "golden belly."

But the ones of the other team were not lame. After the second drink they took the goblet, or better said it was Pelón who did. They called him "Pelón" because that is what he called everyone else. If he passed some pretty girls in the street he would say something like "Look at those pelonas, brother, look. What a nice pelona, nice pelona." Or while greeting his friends he would say "Hi pelón. Hi pelones." Waiters, taxi drivers, lift keepers, everyone he would call pelón. He was the one who boldly displayed his sarcasm with the question "And what do you like best, being a mother or a father...?"

Pelón shook the goblet three times and then released the dice by coldly turning the goblet onto the table. The dice could not be seen. He waited a few seconds, he looked at everyone in the eye and quickly lifted his hands so the play was visible. Everyone smiled, some of happiness, others of sadness; the throw was magnificent.

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