Jon held the die between his fingers. It was the one that had to do with ... mythical creatures.
"No, not that one. The other one."
"Oh. That's right, I made two of these." Jon picked up the other mythical creatures die.
"Why do you have two of them?"
"I needed two dice to cover them all."
"Oh."
"You can pick something else, if you don't want this."
"No, it's okay."
She looked at it. There was one characteristic on each side. Six all together. There was merfolk, drider, elf, dwarf, vampire and wizard.
"What's a drider?" Karyn asked.
"You know the merfolk?"
"Those are mermaids, right?"
"Right. Except mermaids are the women. The men are called mermen. Well, anyway, a drider is like that, except instead of being a fish from the waist down, you're a spider."
"That sounds horrible. I don't want to be part spider."
"You have less than a 20% chance of getting that. But ... if you don't want to roll it."
"No, that's okay. You're right. What's the chance?" She rolled the die across the floor and it came up as ...
