the munester

Spoilers for the future

Week 4: Future, Endings, Sword fighting

The pale woman gives him a closed mouth smile as she shuffles the deck of Tarroka cards before the famous Blade of frontiers (who insisted she call him Wyll). "What do you want to know, Wyll Frontiers?"

Wyll shrugs, nursing the honey mead, "Just a general fortune telling."

She gives him a look, "What, nothing specific?"

Wyll smiles sheepishly, "I don't want to end up in some kind of weird prophecy because I wanted to know if I court anyone. I've read enough old tragedies to know how that turns out."

She laughs, "How wise of you. I can tell you that you have to deal with baby eagles in the future, just by looking at you." Wyll nearly chokes on his mead, "Just by looking at me? What does that even mean???"

She giggles as she flips his first card over, The Executioner which ends her merriment short. He looks down at the card with his mismatched eyes and then looks back up at her.

"That's not good, is it?"

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The repeating quote is: The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - by Oscar Wilde

So I wanted to reference the in universe tarot card- Tarroka from Barovia (strahd's playground). The first card is the Executioner which means "The imminent death of one rightly or wrongly convicted of a crime; false accusations and unjust prosecution" (foreshadowing his first choice of killing Karlach or not). The second card is The Ghost which means "The looming past; the return of an old enemy or the discovery of a secret buried long ago" (referencing his past and how he became a warlock, his choice regarding his father).

The Pale woman in the story is an oc of friend of a friend's who is a vampire and quite silly.