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Agony Hill: Naclall

It's Not in the Cards

It's Not in the Cards

Oct 31, 2020

“Asking the cards the same questions won't give you a different answer, darling.”

“Just one more—"

“No,” I cut the woman off, my Sistrovian accent getting thicker with my annoyance. “Darling, if you keep asking the same questions, the cards will refuse to answer you.”

She gives me a perplexed look. As if I was insane for giving my mother’s deck an emotion. Obviously, she had no idea how the trade worked. Something I wasn’t entirely focused on; Nicolae was coming my way, and as much as I love my job, he was always a distraction for me. So, I excuse myself, carefully scooping up my cards and laying them in their wooden box before I let Nicolae grab my bag. The moment it’s over his shoulder, he’s scooping me up and carrying me back towards the animal cages. My giggles fill the air as I tell him he needs to put me down.

“I can’t, Dragul meu; Tereza needs you.” Nicolae murmurs.

Of course she does. As the healer on hand I was the one she turned to whenever something was wrong. She was twenty-nine weeks pregnant and had been dealing with some abnormal pains. It made me worry that the baby was coming early.

“Then put me down, Draga mea; I need to go to her.”

I manage a kiss before he sets me down, allowing me to move through the caravans. Along the way I offer the performers soft smiles. Asking them how they were doing, how their injuries were healing. All people smarter than Tereza; they would go to a doctor. My knowledge didn’t extend past herbs and poisons…though I have delivered a child or two in my time working with this troop.

“Darling,” I call out as I knock on the door of her caravan. “Can I come in?”

Not a moment later the door opens, and I see the worried face of the one person I know I can trust in this camp. My eyebrows knitting together as I step inside. Tereza prattles on about how she saw a raven— an omen of death that I didn’t believe in despite being pagan.

“Tereza, you have to stop this; you aren’t making things better.” Resting my hands on her shoulder, I lead her over to the bed.

“But what if it’s Red Eyes? What if he kills me before I can have the babe?” She whines, frowning at me as she willingly sits down, the squeaking of the old springs making me wince.

“That won't happen.” I sigh, rubbing her shoulders with my thumbs. “You need to stop worrying yourself; it’s bad for the baby.”

She nods, taking a deep breath before she lays back, the mattress protesting the entire time. “But what if I’m right?”

“Then I will kill him— or I’ll die trying.”

No witch had ever caught Red Eyes and lived to tell the tale. My mother was a testament to that fact. But I was determined to be the first— determined to end the reign of terror that came with him.

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Rosilyn Cercel has been hiding since the untimely death of her family. But she’s not worried for herself…

Her best friend Tereza Miller is pregnant, father nowhere to be found, and terrified. She saw a raven. An omen of death.

Despite knowing death intimately, Rosilyn doesn’t believe in such omens.

#witches #omens #circus #red_eyes #caravan #tarot_cards #friendship #tarot_readings

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