[hr][hr][center][h3][b][i][color=9999ff]Lady Virginia Crypt,[/color] [color=99ccff]Andromeda Aldrich,[/color] and [color=#9370DB]Nancy Parker[/color][/i][/b][/h3], [img]https://i.postimg.cc/k46gmmPV/image.png[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/hjkTFs6B/image.png[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/nVdf1Wyg/image.png[/img][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] [color=9999ff]Plains between[/color][color=99ccff] River and Cave[/color] / [color=#9370DB]DTB Fade Between[/color] 
[b]Skills:[/b] [color=#9370DB]The Cards, History (General Human History)[/color][hr][/center][i][b][color=9999ff]Plains between[/color][color=99ccff] River & Cave:[/color][/b][/i]

	Virginia listened with interest to the Faith's tale of woe - she recognized the name [i]New York[/i]. It was part of the New England area in the colonies where she had trained in the art of combat against the Soulless as a girl. She seemed rather distraught over it, not deigning to introduce herself but Virginia took no offense from it. Customs were always looser in the Colonies, especially in times of distress. Faith certainly was feisty and spirited, reminding her of some dear friends she had lost along the way. [color=9999ff]"If I may,"[/color] Virginia interjected. [color=9999ff]"I believe we are Elsewhere - I was instructed to journey here by my father, the Lord Dywell, by a message he sent through the flames. My family's lore heavily implies that this realm is connected to Belladonna and her eternal life,"[/color] she explained. She knew that Faith had been addressing her companions from the Colonies, but Virginia did not care. 

	She smiled slightly at the tiger as he pressed against her hand. [color=9999ff]"Oh dear Myshka..."[/color] she whispered to the beast, kneeling as to be on the same level as the magnificent creature. [color=9999ff]"Elizaveta will be so glad to see you. She's here as well."[/color] Sure, animals were not traditionally thought of as intelligent, yet Virginia believed that on some level, Myshka would be able to understand her words. She saw the tiger as an equal. At Ludwig's words, she had to ponder them for a moment, yet she believed she understood what he was attempting to convey. They had been somewhere else in this Elsewhere and now they were in a new location - it seemed that experience had been something he experienced many times before. [color=9999ff]"Ludwig, dear... Have you seen my father here? Or heard tale of another Crypt?"[/color] she inquired. 

	Meanwhile, Andromeda couldn't help but despair slightly as Faith explained that Eve had been here and then vanished again. Her attitude about the female Emendator was hardly great, but could Andromeda blame her? She herself had become increasingly jaded with Gilbert and Giouse, trying her best to treat them with respect and defer to their judgment due to their experience... but more and more, they seemed to hardly be any different than the rest of the Paradoxes. It still shocked her how easily they had dismissed Lady Justice - and in many ways, that was representative of her issues with the men. [color=99ccff]"We met someone earlier today who claimed to be the Dice - she was some sort of deity or entity called Justice,"[/color] Andromeda explained to Faith. [color=99ccff]"We had to choose Peace or Punishment - picked Punishment, ended up somewhere else, and then suddenly we were here..."[/color]

	To further her growing disillusion with Gilbert, he brought up the woman that Andromeda had trained with intensely and introduced her as someone he had shared a drink with. Why couldn't he have just been direct and to the point? The next bit of dialogue though from Gilbert caught her attention and gave her something to think about - they were in an afterlife, somewhere outside of human history. Her nerves increased slightly, wondering who else she might find down here - maybe her brother, Walter. 

	Virginia waited patiently as the man, Gilbert Summers, asked for Faith to recall her conversations with this Evelina. Perhaps this trio was so tight knit as to not consider the opinions of those they did not know already - which she took to be a shame. They had a connection to Belladonna however, causing Virginia to grow in confidence of her deductions thus far. Something in the ground caught her attention and she reached out, attempting to pick up the symmetrical objects to examine them. 

[hider=Roll Request - Virginia]Location: Plains between River and Cave
Action: To examine those little objects Ludwig accidentally kicked up and see what they are
Skills: Deduction (Investigative), History (Crypt Family)
Why: Deduction - examining the objects; Crypt Family History - in case she can think of a connection to an ancestor such as Belladonna with them
Final Location: Same[/hider][hr][b][i][color=#9370DB]DTB Fade Between:[/color][/i][/b]

	One of her new companions, Robert, was demanding to know who they were and where they came from. It was a question was she was finding a little bit pointless - would Robert's situation be changed if he knew that she was the Cards and she came into consciousness thousands of years ago in Uruk? No. He would be in the same predicament as if she told him she was Nancy Parker from Louisiana. The other two unknowns were introduced as Mali and Riley. She was definitely more perplexed as she looked down at her cards - her first instinct was to narrow her eyes in rage, assuming someone had swapped them out for a different pair. The annoying woman, Mosi, seemed a likely culprit.

	But before she could begin plotting her revenge, Nancy realized that these [i]were[/i] her cards - she still had the connection to them, they felt the same in her palm. [color=#9370DB]"Bloody hell..."[/color] she muttered under her breath, perplexed as she turned over the first card for the reading and saw the Tower. Unwanted change in the past was pretty on the nose. Turning over the next card, this one for the present, she drew Justice. That one was simple too - cause and effect. She braced herself as she turned over the final card for the future and her heart sank - it was her least favorite one, the Death card. [color=#9370DB]"Fuck,"[/color] she cursed. [color=#9370DB]"Alright, that one isn't always bad... Death can mean loads of things."[/color]

	She stared at the cards set out in front of her, before her eyes widened as the cards started to move, changing whether they represented past, present, and future. Death was now inverted in the past. Justice stayed as the present. The Tower went to the future. Nancy whistled slightly, fidgeting her fingers. The cards had never been this interactive before - they had never moved on their own. [color=#9370DB]"Sophia, tell them that they are welcome to move if they want to, but we're busy,"[/color] Nancy asked the Paradox. 

	There was only one thing that seemed constant for this reading - the present was cause and effect. The past was either unwanted change or a delayed ending, living unaware. The future was either unwanted change or change, death, illness... She couldn't fathom what was going on with this reading. Usually when she read the cards, it was always clear to her - there was no guesswork involved. She was still in her cross legged position on the ground and she decided that since the cards were behaving differently, perhaps she would need to try something different. 

	[color=#9370DB]"Alright... Let's see if I'm bonkers..."[/color] she murmured, before Nancy reached out and just simply tapped the death card with her index finger to see if anything would happen.