week 6

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[Even with three deaths two weeks in a row, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to some semblance of normalcy come Sunday morning. The messes are cleaned up, the bodies are safe in the morgue (or in Kip's case, still in a liquor bottle in the garden) and with this new week comes a fresh crop of returning memories.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 5, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[daughterofthemark]

I would appreciate whatever you are willing to do.

[GIVE HER THE BIG SPREAD wow that sounds a lot dirtier on the screen than it did in my brain]

[goteachother]

[Alright. She's going to shuffle for you then Arianna... and the first card, as with Clarith's spread, goes face up. The 7 of wands and she smiles even as she lays out the rest of the pattern.]

Mmm... the first card represents you in this situation. And the seven of wands is a card for courage, stability of purpose, strength in overcoming difficult opposition.

I think that sounds just like you sweetie.

[And then she's flipping all the other cards over, examining the spread and biting her lip. She's not as confident of the accuracy for this one as she was with Clarith's.]

The thing blocking you from moving forward is... boredom. Just needing change and not having that need satisfied. You've been indulging in your emotional needs but you need more mental clarity. The problem is that you react instead of acting. There has to be strategy to take on the situation and you have to figure out how to do that without compromising your own moral integrity.

In the past you've felt like you were weak, or that things were out of your control. Fate was something bigger than yourself and if you keep on like that it's... only going to end up with you focusing so much on the small things you can control that you miss the big picture. You have the ability to bring everyone together, to bolster spirits and remind everyone why we need to work together. You have so much good in your heart, you just need to use that and lift everyone up. You make everyone around you feel... so much more capable. Clear-headed and contented. You have the power to restore the pirits around you.

Don't be afraid of upsetting the balance, or questioning the status quo. Everything's awful and changing things could make it worse, yeah. But... staying the same will never make it better.

This? Your final outcome? The Knave of Wands... A warrior, proud, enthusiastic, persistent, and loving. That's you. That's who we need you to be and you can do it. You have that inside yourself.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna smiles at that first bit.]

Why, thank you, Dame Queenie.

[But as the reading goes on, she starts to look more serious. She watches the cards intently, as if expecting one of them to have specific written instructions or something. At "staying the same will never make it better," in particular, she just barely mouths a word, something that starts with an F if the slight puff of air at the beginning is any indication.

At the end, she repeats herself...]

Thank you, Dame Queenie.

[This time, though, she's not responding to a compliment.]

[goteachother]

Mmm, of course, sweetie.

[She bites her lip for a moment, reaching out to take Arianna's hand in hers.]

You alright?

[daughterofthemark]

I am fine. I simply... I have much to consider.

[Her fingers curl around Queenie's.]

[goteachother]

I know... it can be kinda overwhelming sometimes, especially the first time you get a good reading.

[A squeeze of her hand and Queenie laughs.]

Not that... I'm insisting mine are very good but generally when people go quiet like that it... means I got something right.

[daughterofthemark]

You did considerably more than get "something" right.

[Something has to change.]

Dame Queenie. Do you believe there are things that can be created but never destroyed?

[goteachother]

Of course there are, sweetie. Or things that require such monumentally exact circumstances that they may as well be indestructible.

[daughterofthemark]

Please. In this case the distinction is critical.

[goteachother]

There are plenty of things that cannot be destroyed, feelings, memories, the spirit, ghosts... as for tangible material things?

There's always something that can destroy it.

[daughterofthemark]

That is what I believe as well.

[She takes a deep breath.]

Dame Queenie, I am considering an extremely irresponsible course of action.

[goteachother]

Arianna... [Soft but warning.]

What do you mean?

[daughterofthemark]

The man whom I doomed to become a living seal against a creature of great evil... perhaps he can still be retrieved, if we can defeat that creature.

[goteachother]

It sounds like that would make sense. If the seal no longer needs to be there you could undo it. Rather than breaking it.

I'm sure you can do it, Arianna.

[daughterofthemark]

There must be a way to destroy the Calamity. We need only discover it.

--Which is a feat that generations before us could not accomplish, but perhaps...

[goteachother]

There's always a way... just try lookin at it from another perspective. Especially if yer family's been going at it for so long maybe you need some outside input?

Tell me about this Calamity of yers, yeah?