Black and grey realism tattoo on a forearm of a cartoon gentleman in a top hat holding a cane, with a banknote and a roulette-style wheel behind him.

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Cartoon gentleman with money on a forearm

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A cartoon gentleman in a top hat and jacket leans forward with a cane, one hand resting on a stack of banknotes. Behind him sits a dark roulette-style wheel with numbers at the top edge, and a partial portrait on a banknote appears at the bottom of the arm. The piece uses smooth black and grey shading with strong highlights, set against a blurred grey background.

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Nobody on Level Nine has seen the cane in the flesh, but everyone knows the story of the Gentleman's table, bolted to the floor beneath a painted wheel whose numbers no longer add up. You are the croupier they send for when a high roller wants the old game played straight. Tonight it is a woman from the Eastern rings, her knuckles bright with brass, and she slides a stack of paper notes across the baize as thick as a brick.

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The notes are real, which is the first problem. Paper money has been banned in the Commonwealth for three centuries, so each bill is a relic the archive would sell its own mother for. You rake them toward the wheel with the little brass rake and catch the grain of the cotton, the faint dead smell of ink. The bottom note carries a portrait of a stern old man with half-closed eyes, as if he has already heard the bet and does not approve of it.

She stakes everything on the single zero. You spin, the ball chatters over the frets, and it drops into the pocket marked zero, which should not be possible, since the wheel has had no zero since the Crash. The woman does not smile. She pushes the notes back across the table with one finger and says, 'The house always pays eventually.' Only then do you notice the silver-tipped cane leaning against your stool, its tip worn bright, though nobody on the floor remembers bringing it in.

You pocket the last note, the old portrait folded against your chest, and walk out past the blurred lights into the wet dark of the lower streets, where a dealer shouts a number you almost remember.

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