I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.