“No!” Lady Azure cries. “We have to see the final deck! Now that—”

“If you love me,” Lily interrupts, turning back to her mother with icy intensity, “you will let them go.”

Lady Azure appears thunderstruck. In the same second, Cleo takes my hand and walks forward. She knows this is our window, while Lady Azure is uncertain.

“You have to let this go now,” Lily adds. “It’s enough.”

We make it to the stairs before we can hear Lady Azure’s response, or before we can say anything to Lily. As we rush down through the levels of Coupled Cottage, I can only hope that Lady Azure doesn’t try to follow us.

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I press my hand to this blue door and see it also has an inscription printed in bronze. It’s not just one symbol, though, like the other doors. I recognize this writing as half of the quote for the Princess of Cups listed in Perilli’s booklet. It reads: It’s time to awaken to something new. Whatever else this means, it must mean I’m close.

I walk through and am faced with another room, one that has several other doors leading inside along the near wall. On the far wall, however, is another single blue door—which makes this some kind of funneled outlet. Approaching the final door, I can’t help but wonder if I’m about to find treasure or ruin.

I enter another darkened space and shine my flashlight. There’s not a door in here, just a set of stairs that must lead out of the maze and into the attic. Then I see something that makes my heart stop. Positioned in the center of the room…

A fish tank filled with water. There’s a compartment above this tank, one that has a wire leading back to a second purple door that leads in here. Shining the light on that compartment, I see the Princess of Cups hanging above the tank.

With a sigh of relief, I realize that I chose correctly, at least according to Carson Perilli. If I had somehow entered through that purple door, it would have dunked the Princess into the tank. Understanding how thin this line remains, I rush forward to grab the card before anything tragic can happen to it.

Holding the lost Princess of Cups in my hands, I see she has been painted to resemble Lily, just like the rest of the Baxter Cups royals. Instead of her usual flowing femininity, this Princess has Lily’s simple style and short hair. She holds a cup on her stomach as she floats face up on the surface of the ocean. I then make out a symbol painted lightly on this cup: the Hebrew letter Mem.