He laid on his back, listening to the soft breathing of the others in the converted inn room that had become "home" over the last year. Warm, bare skin pressed up against his side.
Judgment - not a good card, but not a bad one, maybe. It suggested trials to come, more tests. Warren had joked that the card was late, that it represented everything that had already happened, not what was to come. Howl hadn't wanted to even ask a question, had just wanted the fortune-teller to tell him whatever the Keeper moved her to say. It wasn't so much that he'd wanted to know what the future held, but that he just wanted an omen for what to expect, what to brace himself towards, what to prepare for.
He rolled over onto his side, touching his forehead against that warm skin. He was wasting the night with worrying when he should be sleeping. It didn't really matter what judgment was coming his way in the new year. He had this now, and it was home.
Judgment - not a good card, but not a bad one, maybe. It suggested trials to come, more tests. Warren had joked that the card was late, that it represented everything that had already happened, not what was to come. Howl hadn't wanted to even ask a question, had just wanted the fortune-teller to tell him whatever the Keeper moved her to say. It wasn't so much that he'd wanted to know what the future held, but that he just wanted an omen for what to expect, what to brace himself towards, what to prepare for.
He rolled over onto his side, touching his forehead against that warm skin. He was wasting the night with worrying when he should be sleeping. It didn't really matter what judgment was coming his way in the new year. He had this now, and it was home.
People have forgotten this truth. But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.
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