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Several moons ago when we first headed into Nocwich, there was a fortune teller named Lady Elin. I'm sure many of us went to her tent to have our fortunes read. Perhaps you've forgotten what it was she said. I know divination is met with a lot of skepticism.

Would you be willing to share your fortune with me, if you remember it? I'd like to know if it relates to anything in your life, whether it be from your time before Abraxas or since being summoned.

[and because you cannot expect something without putting yourself on the line...]

She would say "I see" and "you hold a tie to". For me, it was 'many lost souls under the night sky' and 'old lands that find new roots'. It makes me think of my home country. Many hundreds of thousands died because of the war waged in it. The country no longer exists.

I don't want to bore you with more details, but that is my basic interpretation of it.

Even if it could be pretty personal, thank you for reading this. I'm just being curious. If you want to talk privately, my name is Wanda.

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If you wanted to look at it that way, then it is possible.
But why would she limit herself to that of a fortune teller?
Why wouldn't she further her studies with any of the academies available to her?
Or offer her help when everyone went missing?

You are making sense, or as much sense as anyone can in this situation.
And I trust your judgement over just about anyone else's in this matter.

Have you tried it again with someone else?
To know if it was just that one individual's fortune or something applicable to the Summoned at large?

Why do women with great magic hide themselves in roles that many could mock and allude to as just guesswork?

[witch, a term that has been used in the past as an insult, even if wanda hasn't carried that title for long. yennefer would know, that a woman with power is one that is feared, yearned to be contained.]

Your other questions might require actually talking and asking her about it.

But, no, I haven't tried. What I've gathered is that those who got their fortunes read either got something from their pasts, something that is accurate for them in the now, or something that might come to pass. I don't... think there's enough data for me to go off to an actual theory.

I do know that I want to look into it some more.

Because men fear what they cannot control.

[ which is to say: yes. she does know. she knows more than most. it does not mean she hates it any less. ]

Then I guess we'll have to wait until the portals to Nocwich open up again and we can ask her directly.

I don't know if I believe her to be anything more, but if your instincts are telling you otherwise, it's worth looking into.

Edited 2023-05-31 23:59 (UTC)

[this is a conversation they've had before, but never quite in the context of them. always relating to the queen, to (the possibility of) lady eldin's 'powers'—always traipsing right over their own familiarity with that sentiment.]

Best case scenario, she is as you think.
That just means I'll have to look for answers somewhere else.

[julie's purple lightning vision/fortune still worries her.]

[ but they still know it is about them. about their shared understanding of the world and their different, yet still very similar, experiences of it.

and it will probably be one they have again. ]

I wouldn't consider that the best case scenario.
I'll be the first to admit some answers would be nice.
Or even a direction to move in.

[wanda thinks that a dead end is still an answer, even if disappointing.]

I'll keep you informed.
Not much I can do until the Nocwich portals open up anyway.

I will see you in Nocwich, then.

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