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Whether Perilli meant Gran Flo to have this deck or she came to it by chance, there’s a deeper reason we must possess it today. The cards have shaped so much in our lives, have offered so much wisdom and guidance and knowledge—now we’re only just beginning to understand why.

Of course, all of this means we need to take Lady Azure seriously, and not just as an expert on Carson Perilli. Her readings, however they are devised, tap into the deeper fabric of the tapestry being woven here—into the deeper power these cards have to offer. The power we’ve already experienced.

But that’s not the only reason to take Lady Azure seriously as a Perillian authority. I can also tell, pretty instantly, that she already has an answer to my delicately posed question.

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Whether Perilli meant Gran Flo to have this deck or she came to it by chance, there must be a rational reason why we have it today.

Perilli’s cards might have shaped so much in our lives, might have offered so much wisdom and guidance and knowledge—but that’s only because we have turned to them for such answers time and time again. Just like Lady Azure’s tarot readings likely deal in facts instead of some cosmically divined intuition.

However, even if I don’t believe Lady Azure possesses the kind of psychic gifts she claims, we still need to take her seriously as an expert on Carson Perilli.

Especially because I can tell right away she already has a clear answer to my complicated question.

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Lady Azure stares back at me, oceans seeming to brim behind her crystal blue eyes.

“Carson always said knowledge is like an onion. It’s best peeled back in layers, each one better protected than the last—and each one more likely to bring you to tears.” Lady Azure grins. “And I do believe you’ve all earned your next layer.

“Before he died a decade ago, I gifted Carson the guest house on our property, as a live-in studio to produce his tarot artwork and cultivate his teachings. It is there, at Coupled Cottage, where Carson spent many of his final years, creating the very deck you’ve brought here today.”

“Wait. If you’ve never seen our deck before, how do you know he created it there?” Amelia asks.

“Perilli was famously secretive, even the times he lived as our guest,” Lady Azure answers. “Indeed, I wouldn’t have known about this final deck had he not asked to have it mailed to someone.”

This revelation drops a silence, thick and icy, into the shop. The same question must occupy all of our minds.

“Do you have any records of where Perilli mailed the deck?” Logan asks, speaking the heart of the matter, as usual.