"You’re chasing shadows, Kael," a voice drifted from the shadows. It was the cafe owner, an old veteran of the era.
"Shadows have weight," Kael replied, not looking up. He shifted his tabs to the portal, where the stakes of the Agen Bola Poker world bled into the lottery stats. It was a high-wire act. One wrong digit and the Result Data China Sahabat4d would show his downfall instead of his windfall.
The air in the "Jackrowan" cyber-cafe was thick with the scent of clove cigarettes and the low hum of cooling fans. Kael sat in the corner booth, his eyes reflecting the jagged green lines of the charts. To the uninitiated, the 35 flickering images on his screen were just grids of numbers, but to Kael, they were a map.