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October 20 - November 23, 2025
“I see you, Elspeth Spindle.” His voice was near and far at once, as if underwater. “I see a pretty maiden with long black hair and charcoal eyes. I see a yellow gaze narrowed by hate. I see darkness and shadow.” His lips twisted in an eerie smile. “And I see your fingers, long and pale, covered in blood.”
Hello? Back off u seer
“Why were you on the forest road, alone at nightfall, fifteen days past?”
15 days ago??? Lol forgot about that part
Ravyn Yew’s voice in my head.
Um POLICE
In the cold and the dark, the stone does not age. The light cannot reach where the shadows doth rage. At the end of the stairs, by rope or by blade, they take the sick children, to burn in a cage.
:| oh
Pressing a bloody ear to the door, I should think.
Sassy nightmare
“Which again raises the question—what are we going to tell her family? They’ll need a reason to send her our way.”
Ugh ravyn, COURT HER
“What if we tell Erik Spindle and the Hawthorns that we’ve invited Elspeth to stay at Castle Yew… so that you might court her?”
YASSSS
“Trees,” Ravyn muttered, his voice dripping irritation.
Ah shrubs
Ravyn Yew. Infected.
Didnt see that coming
The moment the Cards touched the Captain’s hand, the white color disappeared.
he just copid ole bess
harbinger of all that is to c—”
So what do u mean by this child
Trees,
Ah plants
Trees,
AH bushes
“Trees.”
Ah twigs
“Trees!”
Ah branch
twilight
Hoa hoa hoa hoa hoaaaaa
“Trees,
Ah trunks
A doorless chamber with one dark window.
Ooooolalaaaaaa
Which makes you… the Shepherd King.”
Literally im so smart
the wine more bitter than I’d expected.
Um did yall just get poisoned or truth serumed ?
Chalice Card,
Yall got truth serumedddd
wanted you to have it,” he said, inhaling, standing straighter than before. “You don’t have to give it to Ravyn Yew. You don’t have to give it to anyone. I just thought…” He looked away from me, the light in the windows catching his eyes, his voice barely a whisper. “If I could go back and do it differently, Elspeth, I would.”
Crying
“Be safe,” I whispered to the wind as Ravyn Yew disappeared beyond the gate. Had I known they’d be the last words I’d say to him aloud, I might have chosen them differently.
Bitch what are you saying to me rn
I reached out in the darkness for him, and when my mind scraped against the coarse fur on his back, he did not flinch away. I can’t, I said. I can’t get up. Not this time. I felt heavy, buried. But you can. Elspeth. It was going to happen anyway, Nightmare. You’re strong. And I’m… I’m so tired. My head…
CRYING
This is the end, isn’t it? I murmured, darkness creeping across my vision. I go now. And you—you remain.
Im devastated
Elspeth lowered her voice to a whisper, her spine twisting as her yellow eyes narrowed, wicked and infinite. “The Twin Alders is hidden in a place with no time. A place of great sorrow and bloodshed and crime. Betwixt ancient trees, where the mist cuts bone-deep, the last Card remains, waiting, asleep. The wood knows no road—no path through the snare. Only I can find the Twin Alders… “For it was I who left it there.”
IM SCREAMING HELLO THIS IS THE END? THIS CLIFF HANGER IS GOOOOOOD GODAYUM
