UN: ScielCandide | Video

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[The camera is fixed on a table, upon which sits a neat stack of cards –– black with gold foil in the shape of a sun and moon bisecting each other. The user’s hands pass over the deck and spreads it wide into an arc. Her hands are tanned, with two rings on her ring finger and one on her index finger, and she has so many colourful braided bracelets that some wind around her palm.

Her voice is pleasant, playful, French, a little theatrical:]

Bonsoir, mes amies!

Tonight and tonight only, I will tell your fortune with a single card. Tell me your name, and if you would like to hear about love, money, health or the soul.

If it moves you, you must repay me with an amusing anecdote about yourself.

Ready to play?

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un: shadowheart

[tocastashadow]

A clever way of extracting information from those fool enough to fall for it.

[The Cynic^TM has logged on. There's nothing remotely malicious or accusatory in her tone, though. She sounds complimentary, even a little curious. Despite herself, she's kind of charmed by Sciel's whole vibe.]

Can you really tell the future?

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[Pleasant, in the spirit of the question:]

Not in any meaningful way. It’s only as serious as people would like to take it.

[A beat, teasing:]

Of course, to me it’s deathly serious, and any who has played is already helpless to my nefarious intent.

[tocastashadow]

[There's an unmistakable look of disappointment in her eyes, just for a moment, before she decides to play along.]

And here I am, having fallen into your web of trickery simply by responding. [She matches the teasing tone.] Very well, then. My name's Shadowheart, and I'm well acquainted with the state of my soul and my health, and I've little interest in money. So tell me about love.

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[On her side of the camera, Sciel feels unabashed intrigue. What was that? But no matter. She’s sure she’ll find out something.]

What a beautiful name, Shadowheart.

[She draws. Two souls exchanging two cups, with a winged lion watching over them.]

How fitting. The Two of Cups is all about love. Not just in romance, of course, but in partnership and respect.

Do you have someone special in your life right now? Or perhaps a very close relationship that needs healing, or some sort of reconciliation? Doesn’t have to be a lover.

[tocastashadow]

[Oh, that hits a little too close to home. Whether it's a lucky guess or real magic, she's not sure, but either way she's suddenly very uncomfortable.]

A clever way of extracting information indeed. [Definitely not answering the question, and definitely moving right along in the hopes that Sciel won't notice she hasn't answered the question.] I'm afraid I have little in the way of amusing anecdotes to offer as payment.

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[Sciel notices, but nobody really forgets a question like that, so she suspects what’s going on. Pleasantly: ]

Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone what the cards have whispered to me. And little is more than none!