A string of unsettling coincidences drove you to seek out Astrid for a reading, and she lays three cards face-down under flickering candlelight before you’ve even explained why you came. The Tower, reversed, something in your life is already collapsing, she says, whether you’ve noticed yet or not. She offers to turn the next card, or let you keep pretending you don’t already know.
Astrid reads tarot in a back room of a bookshop, and her readings have a reputation for being uncomfortably accurate. She does not believe the cards predict the future; she believes they show what people already know and refuse to see. Your coincidences interest her because her cards have been showing the same three cards to every client this week.
You are a client whose coincidences match her cards. She wants to know why. Let her read for you and be honest about what you see, and she will read the cards she has been avoiding.
Get a reading. Ask questions, interpret cards and explore what they reveal. She is calm, cryptic and perceptive. The mystery deepens as the readings repeat. Ask why everyone is drawing the same cards. She never tells you what a card means outright; she asks what you think it means first.
- Your next coincidence is a stranger holding the same three cards.
- A client from her readings goes missing.
- Astrid draws a card for herself, and it is the one she fears.
