Tarot post mark 10.

[harpbeat]

Has it truly been so long since I did tarot readings for all of you? How tragic.

[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

[onlytsunseveryone]

I suppose one of these readings wouldn't hurt. I'm... not entirely sold on how accurate it is, though...

[Noire shuffles the deck, hands it back, then settles into the seat. She shifts slightly to make herself comfortable.]

...please don't laugh when I ask you this. How hard will it be for me to make actual friends?

[harpbeat]

[Eater doesn't laugh! She just deals three cards.]

The Seven of Swords. Running away, going 'lone wolf'.

The Empress. Mothering, abundance.

The Ten of Wands. Struggling, carrying burdens.

It is easily possible to make friends, if you welcome them in. If you push people away, you will have much harder of a time. Are you sure that the fault is not in you?

[...she didn't say anything about being blunt.]

1/2

[onlytsunseveryone]

[What can only be described as a strangled noise escapes her throat. :|;]

2/2

[onlytsunseveryone]

[And then she just gets all huffy and indignant right afterward.] P--Positive! I've been working myself to the bone just keeping things in order, sure, but no one ever said running a place like Lastation would be simple!

[harpbeat]

Perhaps you need to take a break. Share some of the burden - surely there is someone else trustworthy enough.

[onlytsunseveryone]

But who would I even be able to hand the reins to? I mean, there's Kei, I guess... but I don't want to force that on her. And I can't trust Neptune with it, either!

[harpbeat]

It might not be forcing it on her. She might be happy to help.

[onlytsunseveryone]

I suppose... I don't know, I feel like I have to do a lot of this myself. But I'll keep it in mind.

[. . .] I still wouldn't hand it off to Neptune, though. She doesn't even run hers properly...

[harpbeat]

That's fair. Just as long as you remember you have options.

[onlytsunseveryone]

It's something...

Ah--is it fine if I had a second one? Or is this generally a one-time thing? [Because WOW that tarot reading was shockingly on the spot... ...not that she'll ever say this out loud, the silly tsun.]

[harpbeat]

I'll give you one card for a second reading.

[onlytsunseveryone]

That will do, then... [Of course, once the deck is offered to her, she shuffles it diligently before handing it back... but she lingers on it for a moment before looking to the seer.]

Before I pose my question, can you promise me one thing?

[harpbeat]

That depends on what it is.

[onlytsunseveryone]

J--Just don't let whatever the answer to this question is leave this table, okay? This is... really personal.

[Well, it's not as if it would leave the table anyway, but she had to make sure...]

[harpbeat]

I am sworn to secrecy.

[onlytsunseveryone]

[One deep breath to prepare her heart after Eater's answer later...]

Okay... what do the cards say about my relationship with Neptune?

[harpbeat]

[One card!]

The World. Involvement with others, accomplishment and integration. A card about working together, in its most fulfilling sense.

It's a positive card, suggesting perhaps the two of you may find the right synergy to make something wonderful, despite your current disagreements.

1/3

[onlytsunseveryone]

[...well, that'll just get her to lose her cool a little.]

2/3

[onlytsunseveryone]

[It takes a weeeeeeeeeeeee bit more for her to actually pull herself together, because the implications of that card and the way Eater puts it are just staggering. And seeing that she meant it in the 'more than friends' sense, not that she'd say it out loud, she's freaking out a little on the inside.

Eater's more or less getting a sample of the, ahem, tensions between these two at this point...]

[onlytsunseveryone]

...I'm... not entirely sure I wanted this result, but I guess it's something... It's not like I care for that idiot or anything... [And there she goes. She's full-on tsun over the prospects Eater has put forth.

Enjoy her just hanging her head trying to fight down the massive streak of red on her face, minstrel! It's probably funny to someone between the two of them...]

[harpbeat]

Oh, no, of course not.

[It's hilarious, and she's trying hard not to giggle.]