faithfulflame | Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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Good afternoon everyone. For those of you who have not met me, my name is Rei Hino. I would like to extend my warmest greetings to all of the New Feathers. I'm sure that you will find something that you enjoy here, and that you will be able to make many friends. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me at any time.

On to other matters, though. Its taken me some time, but I have managed to prepare and purify a small area on the edge of the forest where I can perform flame readings and other types of fortune telling. I do not have much in the way of a shrine, merely a tent and a small consecrated area with which to work, so I hope that doesn't reflect poorly on the experience. In my world, I am a priestess, and I'm fortunate enough to have a gift when it comes to doing such things. If anyone is interested, I will happily use my blessings to offer a reading of your future. It would be my greatest honor to provide my services.

While I cannot guarantee perfect results thanks to our hosts weakening my powers, I feel that its not out of my reach to offer answers to simple questions that you may have about your near future. All that you need to provide is a question and a single hair for a flame reading, or just your question for other types of fortune telling. I have a set of tarot cards if anyone prefers that, but I'm more confident in my abilities at flame visions.

I hope that you find my fortune telling to be enjoyable!

[An elegantly drawn map pointing to an area on the edge of the forest is included with the broadcast pointing it out]

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[Rei can be found at the site depicted on the map for most of the day. Its simple enough, a tent that she and the other senshi had found in the item shop, erected as a sort of open air shrine with a carefully prepared brazier on the outside. Near the center is a small round table she'd hauled out of her house, and at the entrance is a bucket of purified water meant to cleanse oneself before a reading. A pair of crows, Phobos and Deimos, dart playfully around the area, hopefully adding to the impression of the site.

Rei greets anyone who comes by with a happy smile and a great deal of enjoyment. She loves using her gifts, and if it brings a measure of peace or enjoyment to someone she's more than glad]

(OOC: If you have Rei do a reading, I'll offer up a generic enough fortune, since they tend to be very vague most of the time. However, if you wish for something more specific or want to use the reading to set something up for future plans, foreshadowing, whatever, please speak with me and we can work out some details! Hit me up in a PM and we can work from there.)

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[The contact was brief. Palm to palm for less than a moment- and Adele sees.

Blood. Bits of bone, fillets of tendon and carefully almost artfully peeled back skin. It doesn't shake her as bad as it should, not yet. It's terrible. Irreparable damage, even with magic- but. Just a possibility. A blow to her pride. A patient she cannot cure. It's nothing.

Not until it registers that those mangled hands are her own.

Then it is all she can do to keep from screaming. Whatever else Rei saw? She doesn't want to know. Not if that, the man that laughs and her hands are so clear in her mind's eye for a moment.

Adele stumbles backward, hand over her mouth. Whole. Unbroken. For now.]

What- what the hell?!

Do you see why I didn't want to share that with you? Its too horrible for words, Adele-san.

[Rei's still near tears, and she begins to wheeze, coughing and sputtering. She'll be lucky if she doesn't lose her lunch at this rate, thinking of what she'd seen. The senshi had come across a great deal of many dark things in her visions, but usually they were from youma, or the Shittennou, not other people. The only reason she hadn't screamed before is because of Metallia, and the evil she'd felt from the Dark Kingdom.]

Nobody should have to see that...n...nobody...

[Rei chokes back more tears and turns to the older woman.]

Adele...

[Its all she can say]

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...it happens here.

[The first coherent thought she can manage is that whatever, whenever that is? It. Happens. Here. While the Malnosso might be butchers- might be mad and warped and unpredictable but this. She knows that something like this? Comes from the hands of another person.

They are the only ones that are capable of such gleeful depravity.

For a moment she thinks she might be ill. She knows she will be ill, later. When she's not in this place. Adele rounds up all that she feels, all this bone chilling shock, the gut twisting panic, and locks it away.

Almost all of it.]

I'm sorry.

I should not have- I should not have come.

Adele...

[Rei wobbles back to her feet and turns, tears barely contained. This was all very, very shocking. But she still had a duty to perform. What good was she if she couldn't help Adele in her time of need. Even if thinking about it may make Rei sick to her stomach.]

Don't...don't apologize...I can't...no, I won't accept that.

[She blinks back more tears and marches over to a wooden box, pulling out a small charm, a piece of engraved wood. A warding charm against bodily harm. It may do her some good, give her peace of mind.]

You...you need to take this. I can't let you leave without it.

[She rushes over and practically thrusts the charm into the woman's hands, but when she touches them she remembers. Rei turns and retches, now completely incapable of keeping down her breakfast.]

Rei-

[She can' think of anything to say. What she's made this girl see- and there was more. More she won't know about until it happens. If it happens.

You know your luck. This is going to happen. Sooner rather than later, and it will not end well.

It can't. For a very brief moment she wants to ask Rei if she saw her die at the end of this. Living with her hands ruined is just- she can't. Think about it, wrapping her mind around what it would take to recover, to mend and repair and move on is more than she can manage.

But she can't ask that. Not after making her see it in the first place. Not when she'd come on a whim, to bolster this fragile faith she's growing.

The Charm's accepted instantly. She runs her thumb over the edge, shudders at the mental image of it bent back far beyond it's capacity, and swallows.]

Will this. Will this help?

[Rei looks up, wiping her mouth and giving the woman a sad, sad look. Its like its the last time she'll see you, Adele. She's genuinely having trouble looking at you right now, and that isn't your fault. At least she's done throwing up...]

It will. I've put all my power into making these charms. They...they won't fail you. Keep it with you, always. Don't ever take it off. O...otherwise it won't work.

[Faith in a trinket. A bit of carved wood- how was it to protect her from. That. It couldn't. It was just wood-

But. This is the nature of faith. The small charm warms in her hand as she holds it. Adele almost imagines some kind of currant running through it- but it's wood. That's impossible. It's a symbol. It can't keep her safe.

And yet she desperately wants to believe that it can. She uncurls the cord, pulls the loop over her head. Tucks the charm under her blouse and feels that small engraved wood resting against her skin.

Power to protect. She has to have faith.]

I won't. I promise.

Really? You promise?

[Rei turns, her eyes staring deeply into the older woman's. This meant as much to her as it did to Adele. To give faith to someone, to lend some sort of solace in the face of darkness. That was the goal of a priestess, but she wasn't sure that she'd succeeded at all.]

You have my word, Rei.

[She rests a hand over her chest, fingers brushing over the small lump of the charm. These things work if you want them to. If you believe in them- that is what she's been told for years. It's late, terribly late in the game to be picking this up but. She has faith in those she knows and trusts. And if Rei swears this will keep her safe? She'll never take it off.]

This stays with me. Always.

Good.

[She can't think of much else to say, honestly. She still can't look at the woman's hands, nor her feet, but she fixes her gaze firmly on the woman's face.]

You...should probably go. I'm sorry, but...I'm not sure I can...[a heavy, heavy sigh] I don't think I can stay centered enough with you here right now.

I'm sorry...

I will. Rei I'm. I am sorry for this. You shouldn't have had to see that- or anything else.

[Adele tucks her hands into her pockets, clenching them as she makes her way out of the shrine. They were whole. They were fine. They would remain so as long as she has any kind of say in the matter. And one day? She'll make it up to her. Find a way to repay the debt this horrible vision caused.

The trick will be trying to sort out how.]

Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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