Tarot post mark 3.

[harpbeat]

It has been quite a while since I've done this. Would anyone like a Tarot reading?

[A deck is on the table in front of her.]

Simply focus on your question while shuffling the deck, and inform me of your question when you return the deck to me. Then I can read your fortune.

[Any game, any character will be read with a real shuffling of a real Tarot deck!]

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[warriorscribe]

It was. *There's considerably less nervousness in his posture now, and a relief evident in his voice.* Thank you.

I... *He's desensitized to the feeling of shouldering a burden alone. It's the condition he was in for over three hundred years, after all, and while he's tasted the relief of working in a team again in Animus, slipping back into solitude doesn't register.

But speaking of solitude...*

...May I ask another question?

[harpbeat]

If you wish to, you may.

[warriorscribe]

It's about another friend that just joined me in the tower half a year ago, Lucifel. He's...learned that he'll fall after all, when the both of us thought it was exclusive to other worlds' versions of him. It's been weighing on the both of us, and I do have faith in him, but... *He shakes his head and takes the deck back to shuffle again, and hands it back with the question:*

Is it possible to answer a question of two fates as they interact with one another?

[harpbeat]

I will see what I can do.

[Three cards.]

The first card pulled was the Nine of Cups. A card of wish fulfillment and contentment: receiving what you think you want. This card often warns of getting one thing only to learn that you may regret it.

The second card was the Emperor. The Emperor leads. He represents the father, structure and order, and working within the established rules.

The third is the Four of Wands. Letting go of limitations, freedom, new possibilities.

This... is a complex situation. The Emperor and the Four of Wands seem to be in opposition... but if read as 'following the Father and His guidance' and 'new possibilities apart from what was foretold' then they are complementary after all.

I would take the moment to repeat the Nine of Cups' warning: some choices are attractive only because you do not think of the consequences.

[warriorscribe]

...Then, it may not be something we truly want to happen? Or does it mean whatever leads to his fall will be a poorly-thought choice?

*He's aware she wouldn't know, but it's a scary question.*

[harpbeat]

If I may speak personally for just a moment?

Falling... it is not something I regret. There are circumstances, in some worlds, in which it is warranted. I cannot say if your world is one of them.

But it is a very permanent thing, in ways far more painful than what humans mean by 'permanent'. He is aware now of the risk - all the more reason, whether it is intentional or not, to think through his actions carefully if they seem to be suspect.

That is all I have to say, and I hope you do not mind the digression.

[warriorscribe]

Oh...

*It's the startled but reserved "oh" of hearing an unexpected fact about someone for the first time. He'd had no idea she was a fallen angel.*

I've encountered people from worlds where it is. Where God is a tyrant wanting to abolish human free will. He couldn't be further from the God of the world Lucifel and I know. Our God wants nothing more for humans than for them to find their own path...so, I don't know. I can't imagine any fall is warranted...

I've asked him to follow me in times of doubt. We come from two separate versions of our world, though, so I will have to ask the one from mine to do the same if we succeed.

[harpbeat]

I sincerely wish that you are happy in the end. That is all I can say, and the reason I do these readings: to try to use my gifts so that people will take the choices that will bring them true happiness.

[warriorscribe]

Thank you. We'll try.

[harpbeat]

Then that is all I can ask for.

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