Especially because, staring down at the Princess, I now see only Lily’s face gazing back up at me. I know what I believed about hauntings and psychics and mediums before Lily led us into Coupled Cottage, but nothing could prepare me for what happened inside. I’m not sure if what I believe has actually changed, but how I feel about all of it? That has become a beast of an entirely different color.

Of course, nothing truly compares with the revelation that Perilli mailed his final deck to Grandma—and that both of them went to such great lengths to keep it a secret. All I can really settle on is that it all obviously can’t have been a complete coincidence. So maybe if I can find the through line connecting these threads in the final two missing cards, then maybe I can finally solve some of these lingering mysteries?

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I can only see the Princess of Cups drowning in that horrible tank.

Part of me feels devastated to have lost the card this way, but another part feels like this might actually be a blessing in disguise. If coveting these Perillian cards is a path that inevitably leads to being like Lady Azure, then maybe it’s best I learn to let some of the cards go now?

Then again, I did get a good look at the Princess before she was dunked. Which meant I could work with Cleo last night to recreate as much of the card as possible. She reminded me that we could technically make the card whatever we wanted, but I just felt it was right to do the original some kind of justice.

So I now hold Cleo’s replacement card in my hands, at the top of the stack of Perillian cards. And Lily’s floating face gazes back up at me, drawn in Cleo’s signature style. I know what I believed about hauntings and psychics and mediums before Lily led us into Coupled Cottage, but nothing could prepare me for what happened inside. I’m not sure if what I believe has actually changed, but how I feel about all of it? That has become a beast of an entirely different color.

Of course, nothing truly compares with the revelation that Perilli mailed his final deck to Grandma—and that both of them went to such great lengths to keep it a secret. All I can really settle on is that it all obviously can’t have been a complete coincidence. So maybe if I can find the through line connecting these threads in the final two missing cards, then maybe I can finally solve some of these lingering mysteries?

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Right now I hold a stack of specific cards in my hands, hoping something will come to me: The Magician, The Lovers, The Empress, The Hanged Man, The Emperor, and Death—the six cards designated by the Perillian toolset.