Amelia’s eyes raise from the Prince, and I can see it written all over her face. She doesn’t believe in karma, not the way Logan does—or the way, on some level, I suppose I do. Still, she accepts the card with a meaningful nod. In this moment, all that matters is that our resident Magician found our missing Wands card.

“Did Cain say if the card helped him?” Amelia asks, choosing her first words quite well.

“He didn’t. And I didn’t ask,” Logan says. “But it must have helped him one way or another, if he was willing to part with it.”

Amelia stares down at the Prince of Wands then, as if still wondering about its truest power.

That’s when I notice Amelia does not hold the King of Pentacles.

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“I guess we can add the Prince back to the deck, along with the King of Pentacles,” I say, seeing that Amelia grips the new card a little too tightly.

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“When I got back home, I couldn’t sit still,” Logan begins. “So I started looking to find anything useful about Perilli or the cards online. I figured there must be some kind of renewed chatter after the ‘final deck’ surfaced in their community. But, of course, I couldn’t find anything. The Corners really don’t seem to communicate publicly, as far as I could find. However, there was one report.”

Logan pauses. We all lean in, full of anticipation.

“It was from an auction house based in Santa Barbara, reported by a local paper. Apparently an anonymous Summerland resident donated the proceeds from the sale of a large Californian art collection to a homeless shelter. The resident included only one accompanying quote: ‘From a nearby cup, to water our local lilies.’”

Silence falls over Charvan, because we all must be thinking of the Family Baxter.

“There’s no way to know if it was Lady Azure or one of the kids. Or none of them, I guess,” Logan adds. “But I had to tell you all about this in person.”

Immediately, I turn to face Amelia. “Do you think Lady Azure sold some of her Perillian collection after our visit?”

Amelia doesn’t answer, though. I suppose I’m in the most unique position to have that question answered, but no one would dare ask me to reach out to Seidon after all that has happened.

Shoving that thought aside, it seems that our Princess of Cups visit might have been a pivotal moment for the Baxters, one way or another. Then I wonder—if Perillian objects were indeed the artworks sold, who exactly were they sold to?

This new question prompts me to look down at Amelia’s hands, where our reacquired deck rests.

That’s when I notice Amelia does not hold the King of Pentacles.

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I see that Amelia also clutches the King of Pentacles, a little too tightly.

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