Welcome to Gaia! ::

"Micheal?" Isley repeated as she gathered the six cards up and placed them back on the deck before picking it up and beginning to shuffle them again. "I suppose that would be another one of your kind regarding the 'true death' comment there at the end?"

"And would you like a seat as well, Clearon, sir? You can bring over a chair if you'd prefer to sit. I can give you a reading of your own as well if you'd like. I do past life readings, answer specific questions you might have, relationship questions, to just the general reading if that's what's wanted. "

Seeing as the vampire pushed the name he mentioned aside, Isley thought better than to push the topic any farther.

"A general reading is made up of three cards, one each for the past, present, and future," she said as she began to lay the cards once again on the table in front of her.

"Your past," Isley said as she looked over the cards and then skimmed back to the first one, "you backed down from the challenges you faced, either because you were too afraid of what could happen or couldn't summon the willpower to change the situation."

"Presently, you've escaped what it was that had you chained down in the past, but either only barely due to your own efforts to break free or now that you are free from the old bonds there is something else holding you back."

"As for hints to the future-"

Isley paused.

The woman looked at the deck sitting off to the side and then back at the card on the end.

"There is a reunion with someone that may cause you more pain and problems than what might make you happy."




*(Strength-R,Chains-R, 6Cups-R)

Isley looked up from the cards, unflinching at his words though she looked sympathetic. "I'm only the messenger and this is only what the current path is. Nothing to come is set in stone."

"She certainly does have the Edge as her mentor would say," Isley muttered. Foolish young woman wasting her life the way she was.

"Sounds like this Kiru might be jealous perhaps? Or maybe he just doesn't trust her to keep your secrets from the rest of human kind? Granted, she is a hunter," Isley pointed out. "Maybe he just doesn't want to see you two get hurt?"

"You might want to bring your chair closer to the table," Isley said to Sondra as she shuffled the three cards back into the deck, "and you, Clearon, might want to take a few steps to the side. I like trying to keep the cards focused on who they're suppose to answer to."

"Now... Sondra? Did I get that right? Were you looking for more information about your relationship with a specific person? Or were you looking for what love might be in your future?"

There was just the the tiniest of movement that Isley made to signify she caught Sondra's glance and she asked nothing of it. She flipped the cards and looked them over in silence, far longer than she had with Clearon's. She then shuffled the cards back into the deck and then pulled three new cards out onto the table, her fingers tapping on the table just below the cards as she looked them over with a frown.

"There is opposition to overcome. Something needs to end before the next can begin and that change may come unexpectedly. There maybe heartache but there is someone once everything runs its rightful course."


*(5Wands,Death-R,KnightCups-R)
*(Death, KnightCups, 7Swords)

"I've done it before, but I generally don't prefer to do it without the other person present at least once," Isley said as she shook her head. "For example the ranger, but she was an odd case. If you have something that belongs to him, I'd be more willing to do it. Do you have something of his on you?"

"I need to take a quick breather though," she said as she pushed her own chair back and stood up. "Too many readings all at one time can make the later ones run bad with all the energies getting mixed up."





(As you're the first one to do the tarot thing here and there's no one else that's joined yet, I'll let the 'first two free only' thing slide should it be called upon.)

"That will work," Isley said, nodding in approval as she stepped out from behind the table. Her gaze moved from Clearon, to Sondra, and back again. "Since the item belongs to you I must politely request that the Lady Sondra here give up her spot for you to sit." Isley pulled over another chair for Sondra but sat it farther away from the table.

"I'm going to step outside for a moment for some air. All I ask is that you please don't touch anything, especially the cards. I'll only be a minute."

Once outside the door she crossed her arms in front of her and leaned back against the door frame. Her eyes raised to the stars in the sky, tracing the patterns of constellations and thin wisps of clouds drifting by.

A feeling then drew her eyes down from the sky and look down an alleyway. She didn't see them anywhere but the other couple that Clearon and Sondra had traveled with must have chosen to go that direction.

After a few more breaths of night air, Isley returned inside and sat back down behind the table.

"Alright, back to business." She pulled her skirts beneath her as she settled in her chair. "You," she instructed to Clearon, "need to focus on the original owner of this chain, your friend. Don't think of anything else. Don't let your mind wander or this will taint the reading."

Isley grabbed a fair sized brown cloth from a shelf to the side and carefully picked up the chain with it. "Also, what kind of reading would you like me to do for him?"