[1.2] - (Mnemosyne) - Spirit in the Sky
The card didn't answer for obvious reasons, the blank expression of the skull looking back at her with hollowed eyes, a lightning bold in one hand and a rope in the other. It could mean nothing, as there were a million tarot sets in the world, each with their own variation on the major arcana; there had even been a Simpsons-themed novelty set at the same store she'd purchased these ones. What was left that was so sacred about them?
The meanings. Maybe she hadn't focused on a question to ask the deck, or maybe the deck hadn't understood.
When Claire looked on the other side of the pictoral key that had come with the cards, it had a selection of "popular spreads" for tarot reading. She had started with the five-card as it seemed the most common and best place to start, but there had been ones called a Tetraktys spread, a Celtic Cross spread, a Mandala spread, the Cross and Triangle spread, and so on. It seemed there was an answer for everything if you knew where to start, an innocuous detail that wouldn't be in a book.
While she looked over the different pictures used for examples, the strange thing that stood out to her was a familiarity with them. They were done on a spread the same color as her sheets, and seemed to be in the same inconsistent light that she got through her bedroom window. When she looked closer, it even seemed that the example pictures had hands with freckles on the wrists that matched her own, but that might have just been exhaustion setting in.
Before she dismissed it, however, there was also the example picture of the five-card spread that she had done earlier. It might have been the poor printing on cheap paper, but it looked like the fifth card laid down in that one was blank as well...
[Private to Mnemosyne: Claire's trigger for her Awakening will be diving hard into her obsession, one that she has already been doing, but it's time to go over the edge. While she's reaching a breaking point, we want to see her just about cross the line before snapping on. End the post with either her reaching a manic or obsessive point in trying to understand what the cards are telling her (which will be blank from here on out), and feel free to really spell out Claire's breakdown...]