[but he knows that she's teasing. He absorbs what she has to say and what beats what, rules, too. And wonders how some subordinates know the most complex of rules to a card game but a simple set of orders, no matter how carefully worded, eludes them]
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[but he knows that she's teasing. He absorbs what she has to say and what beats what, rules, too. And wonders how some subordinates know the most complex of rules to a card game but a simple set of orders, no matter how carefully worded, eludes them]
You sound like a professional.