How Green Becomes Wood

"Oh yeah, you should see it on a normal year. But I'll bet the renewal tomorrow will give you an idea of what it's normally like." Cooger told her.

Dark followed Daizi upstairs to help her ready. When she felt all set, he went back down to tell them she was ready. Inside her study, now, was candlelit and heavy with incense. The coffee table had been moved out of the way and pillows were set on the floor for everyone to sit on, arranged in a semicircle across from Daizi, who was already sitting, shuffling her cards.
 
"I love a good party," Lex grinned and swiped an olive. When Dark said Daizi was ready, Lex volunteered to go first and went up to the study. She didn't put much stock in things like tarot cards, but she didn't see the harm. It was all in good fun! If Daizi believed, which she seemed to thoroughly, then good for her! Everyone needed something.
 
When Lex sat down, Daizi handed her the card and instructed her to to shuffle them for as long as felt necessary and to ask a question of the future aloud as she did. Then she took the deck back and carefully set them in the ten-card spread. Be it true prophecy or the unintentionally learned tricks of a scammer, at times the reading felt weirdly too real. At times, she sat struggling with a card, earnestly trying to make sense of it and breathing deep of the incense like the Oracle of Delphi.
 
Lex left still not believing any more, but impressed by Daizi's skill. It was a fantastic experience!

Xander went up next, and he took it more seriously than Lex. He still had some questions about the truth and realness of all this, but he was invested in trying to learn more and figure out what he believed.
 
If Xander asked any of his questions, Daizi did her best to answer it for him. Despite how ardently she believed in the truth of it all, she was not afraid of questions and respectful disagreements. Her beliefs, in many ways, came down to one simple quote by William Shakespeare: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Or perhaps more succinctly, in a Florence + the Machine song: And the world is so much wilder than you think.

She read Xander's cards with a gentle austerity. This was not a joke to her, and she believed everything she was saying, even the parts which seemed strange that she would know. Again, perhaps a swindler's trick, but not one she'd recognize in herself.
 
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