I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.