Tarot post mark 9.

[harpbeat]

It has been some time since I read Tarot, and it seems like a pleasant way to end the year, doesn't it?

[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!]

Comments

[harpbeat]

Not at all. You won't know - that is the point of trying and failing a few times. Discovering what you don't want through your first few relationships is normal.

Besides, to tell you exactly what to do, I would need far more cards.

[meowbel]

[Pause]

Then where do I get more cards? Because if the cards right now won't tell me, then we'll just go and get some more!

[harpbeat]

[She covers her mouth with her hand to hide her laugh.]

Oh, child, I admire your ingenuity, but it simply does not work that way. I meant that the kind of specificity you are after would require a hundred cards in the deck, at least.

[meowbel]

Then we'll just get hundreds of them! It shouldn't be too hard, we'll just go up to the store and ask for them!

[Stubborn is what stubborn does]

My love life is at stake here!

[harpbeat]

[More giggling.]

I am sure you needn't resort to that. Please refrain from emptying your pockets buying tarot cards.

[meowbel]

Yeah but I want to know right now though.

How will I know what my life is if they don't tell me what to do? Like, what if I end up like one of those old ladies with a bunch of cats in my house?!

[Pause] But now that I think about it, it's not a bad future. Who doesn't want a house filled with cats?

[harpbeat]

I am quite fond of cats myself. I am certain that even without the aid of fortune telling, you will be able to make a positive result for yourself.

[meowbel]

Well do they say anything good about me? Love life or not?

What does it say anyway? [Please let it be good, please let it be good!]

[harpbeat]

Hmmm, I think I could draw one more card for you if you like... But really, do you need fortune telling to tell you nice things about yourself?

[meowbel]

[There was a long pause on Mabel's end]

......Maybe? I mean, isn't it always nice to have random people telling nice things about you anyway?

[harpbeat]

Certainly, but it means more from people than from cards, I do believe.

[meowbel]

So what?

You're saying that I shouldn't listen to the cards to tell me what to do? But there's magic involved and whole bunch of weird whatamajings! How can I not listen to it?

[harpbeat]

Weird whatamajings are no substitute for good sense.

[Which she has very little of.]

[meowbel]

Then what do you think I should do? Weird whatamajing or what, I still got to figure out what to do with my love life here!

[This is Mabel we're talking about here]

[harpbeat]

Perhaps I might suggest 'worry about it when you're older'?

[meowbel]

You really think so?

I don't know, it seems like everyone around me is falling in love! And pretty soon, I might be the only one left without anyone!

Now that's just scary!

[harpbeat]

I really, truly think so. You are young yet - those people around you will break up within a few months. Count upon it.

[meowbel]

Is that the cards telling you or are you telling me that? Because I don't even know anymore!

Now my brain's getting all swooshy and messed up from everything!

[harpbeat]

That is just from my experience. Were it the cards, I would certainly show you them - never trust a tarot reader who will not show you what they've drawn.

[meowbel]

Well, I know that! That's a total no brainer because otherwise, that would be cheating! And no one likes cheaters!

Especially when they're cheating on people cheating about their own lives or something!