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Lark snorted "You can’t be this big of a dus I was half-crazy But these two had a lot of nerve giving me flack about this "Of the last four Arcana who have abducted ave me a reason for his actions Arthur wanted to experiment on me Guthrie tried to turn me into a cannibal Vincent planned to sever parts of row back Death wanted to cut offthe ‘creature’ every day that he would do so"

Aric’s brow furrowed

I gazed fro me, do you knohat he said? ‘Already in an alliance’" I rubbed"For no other reason, we should keep hi before"

In ato consider"

"Yeah Sure, Eves"

I hadn’t changed their ed the subject "How did Sol and Zara live through that crash anyway?"

Aric rose, heading to his bar service for a bottle of vodka and a shot glass "Fortune possesses the divine power of luck" He poured a shot, then decided to bring it and the bottle back to his desk "When fully empowered, she can overcolass? We’d also shot vodka in this study, talking into the night

Lark said, "Like she’ll always get a lucky bounce?"

He took his seat again "In that crash, any nuht have played out She could’ve been thrown fro perfectly on the remains of a tree, cradled between two lih to break her fall All I know is that she walked out of that canyon, likely unscathed"

Lark frowned "I thought she was associated with fate Her Arcana name’s Our Lady of Fate"

"As she desired it to be," he said "But it’s a very liberal translation"

I’d thought these Arcana things were set in stone Now the goalposts were

He downed that shot, then poured another "She appears to control fate, but she doesn’t have any influence over what happens to her Her power is passive She doesn’t read the future and consciously affect it--not like the Fool does" Aric’s gaze grew distant "Ages ago, Fortune was known more accurately as Lady Luck The Fool was known as the Hand of Fate She despised him for that and envied his power"

I’d once called Matthew the hand of fate He could see a thousand years into the future, but he’d also been able to guide h a hail of bullets "But hoould Sol have survived?"

"Fortune’s allies often benefit from her luck--unless she takes it from them She’s also a luck thief That’s her active power"

I h touch" As Death stole life She’d been about to touch me before she’d been interrupted "When Matthew said fate had eneral? Not Zara?"

"I would believe so"

Adjusting the creature around her nape, Lark tugged a folded-up piece of paper out of her jeans pocket "I’ll update e on Aric’s desk

I crossed ht you kept a laed one of Aric’s pens,some notes "I don’t flaunt the list anyelled with Selena, but I respected her"