Sorry, you must be a member of this group to do that.
She pulled her beauty from the Maiden Card, but for a reason I could not work out, she did not carry it on her person, a horrid risk hardly anyone practiced. Providence Card magic was not limited by distance—a Card could be tapped and left elsewhere. But, without the Maiden a touch away, Ione could not release its magic at whim. Nor could she release herself from its negative effects when they inevitably sank in. And for the Maiden, the negative effect was one that felt like an utter betrayal to the Ione Hawthorn I had always known. Heartlessness.
