She flipped them over one by one. “There will be a significant change in your life,” she said. “I see you taking an alternative path, but one that is chosen for you, not forced.” My future was before her eyes. Would Maman and I join the caravan? When she turned over the last card, every part of my body was rigid, waiting to exhale. “You will be an orphan soon,” she said. She tapped the card depicting a beast with horns and a tail like a fish. “And I see you underwater, as a young maiden.” A bark of nervous laughter came out of me. Maman was by my side at once, spitting out a sharp retort in
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Oh so that's what she meant in the beginning
