It's in the cards.
Jan. 28th, 2011 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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What the hell? Diviners always have to be so ... indirect. What did that card mean?
███████ marched up into the foothills of the mountains that lay west on Pollnivneach. The sun hung in the sky and shone brilliantly. But ███████, the Sun's daughter, could not be seen by Tumeken, the Sun. Neither did the people of Pollnivneach see her as she was leaving. They saw Sumona. A completely ordinary Kharidian woman. Her red hair and red eyes were unusual, yes. But it wasn't anything special. She wasn't a demon; she wasn't the Devourer; she wasn't the Scourge of the desert. She wasn't a murderer.
She was completely normal.
The hills eventually stopped and turned into a plateau. Here lived Ali the Hag, in a nice thick walled adobe house. The woman who everybody thought was Sumona came up to the door and knocked. "Alice? Are you there? I need to speak with you."
What the hell? Diviners always have to be so ... indirect. What did that card mean?
███████ marched up into the foothills of the mountains that lay west on Pollnivneach. The sun hung in the sky and shone brilliantly. But ███████, the Sun's daughter, could not be seen by Tumeken, the Sun. Neither did the people of Pollnivneach see her as she was leaving. They saw Sumona. A completely ordinary Kharidian woman. Her red hair and red eyes were unusual, yes. But it wasn't anything special. She wasn't a demon; she wasn't the Devourer; she wasn't the Scourge of the desert. She wasn't a murderer.
She was completely normal.
The hills eventually stopped and turned into a plateau. Here lived Ali the Hag, in a nice thick walled adobe house. The woman who everybody thought was Sumona came up to the door and knocked. "Alice? Are you there? I need to speak with you."
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Date: 2011-01-30 05:07 am (UTC)She took a puff of the cigar, and blew the smoke in the witch's face. "I'll tell you who sucks down marrentill smoke. A monster, an animal that you should not tease."
She pointed to the card at top of the staff. A single sword, held up against a blazing sun. But reversed, it looked like a dagger plunging through it. The ultimate outcome.
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Date: 2011-01-30 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-30 05:42 am (UTC)She got up and began to leave, but halfway through the door, she turned and said, "Do not breathe a word of this to anyone else. I am sure those cards will tell what will happen if you do."
She left.
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Date: 2011-01-30 05:44 am (UTC)