Paper

Alex was now unsure how to continue playing. She couldn't use her hand to gesture anymore. Her only hope was to try speak her choice.

She almost went to say "paper", but caught herself. Both Scissors and paper had two syllables. She needed some added way to emphasise her point.

Alex realized that her cuffs had been replaced by ones that had a chain between them. There must be some reason for that, she thought. Something she needed her legs for.

She began feeling around with her feet, carefully, as much as the chain would allow. At the edge of her reach on one of them, she could feel a square recess in the ground. Investigating it further, she felt another shape in the middle. An 'X'.

Another square near the first one featured a square. A third one a circle.

Scissors, Paper, Rock.

Alex moved her foot to the square plate and pressed it down with her foot.

A few moments later she felt Aisha's outstretched fist placed against her stomach.

Another win. Alex had done something done and gone Paper twice. Aisha had become too predictable with her strategy.

Aisha was informed, due to still having hearing, that she had lost another round. She angrily tied her hands behind her back with her penultimate strand of rope.