I'm sure I haven't even the slightest idea where your pancreas is, to begin with.
[It tickles a little, the way he snares her with his arms; even now it's always a little strange to feel things that make contact with her midsection, after years of corsets acting like a barricade and months of shame making her loath to think about the things that had been done to her to keep her body alive.
She reaches for the third card, resting her fingers atop it, but doesn't flip it just yet.]
This one will be about the past. Not just strictly things that led up to this moment, but things in the past that may be influencing things in the present — likely this one won't come as too much of a surprise, either.
[Except that she is surprised when she turns over the Queen of Wands, having evidently been steeling herself for something else.]
...Oh.
[She flushes a little, casting her eyes low.]
You're...do you recall this card? How the court cards sometimes mean particular people? This one is me...
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[It tickles a little, the way he snares her with his arms; even now it's always a little strange to feel things that make contact with her midsection, after years of corsets acting like a barricade and months of shame making her loath to think about the things that had been done to her to keep her body alive.
She reaches for the third card, resting her fingers atop it, but doesn't flip it just yet.]
This one will be about the past. Not just strictly things that led up to this moment, but things in the past that may be influencing things in the present — likely this one won't come as too much of a surprise, either.
[Except that she is surprised when she turns over the Queen of Wands, having evidently been steeling herself for something else.]
...Oh.
[She flushes a little, casting her eyes low.]
You're...do you recall this card? How the court cards sometimes mean particular people? This one is me...