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I shuddered at the idea of winning "Can the gaed?

"I don’t follow" She blinked at me, as if I’d just asked, "Hey, can I borrow your credit card and pop over to the mall?"

"I know others have tried to stop it before"

"So show of peace But in the end, all those alliances failed Arcana are born to kill They only delayed the inevitable"

"Why is it inevitable?"

"The gods decreed this gao Someone has to win No matter what, someone in Say the last two cards allied for a couple of decades: they would both age Once one died, the other would walk the earth--older, weaker Disadvantaged in the next gaht a future with me, clever Aric had already come up with a solution to this proble along We would soue), and she would endure for centuries, forced to play the next garandkids Yet she’d volunteered for it!

Being with Aric had seeues

When I’d chosen Jack, I’d also been choosing the future he represented: building Acadiana, far fro my abilities to help others

Gran said, "Not that the Minor Arcana would allow such a union anyway"

My eyes widened "They exist?" In any Tarot deck, there were fifty-six Minor Arcana cards, divided into four suits: cups, pentacles or rings, wands, and swords

Such as the eerie ten of swords card I couldn’t iether "Of course," she said, as if she was telling erous as Major Arcana Especially the court cards"

"Where are they?" Did they converge too? "How do you find them?"

"You don’t," she said "Best avoid theht of Swords perished in the Flash The Queen of Cups too Truly, a good dozen of thehtmares"