Emma took a seat opposite Jane, where it would be easier to do lay out the cards and just to talk. "I've been reading the tarot since I was five. Ran away and joined the carnival as a fortune-teller when I was thirteen. I've done a lot of readings that are just for fun. But I've got this gift, it feels right to use it to help people. So when I can, I try to." If she didn't, and something happened she could have foreseen, she had to live with knowing what she'd failed to do.

"At home, we were... a target in a war. I tried to See what I could to help the ones protecting us." She shrugged again, and looked down at her hands. "It wasn't enough, but I had to try."