You see an old woman sitting at a card table at the Ratty. You walk up to her and she invites you to sit. The old woman shuffles her tarot deck, worn supple with age. She pulls out the first three cards and places them on the spread:
Chance
Justice
Death reversed
"A rare drawing indeed. Three of the Cards Major at the start. Chance or randomness
will be the path, but it is order, Justice, that is the answer. Death reversed indicates
the solution to a problem, an ending which is a beginning."
She continues to turn cards.
The Knight of Blades reversed
The Devil
"The solution lies with a user of heat or flame
The Queen of Pentacles reversed
The King of Wands
"A maker of creative beauty, but practical as well. Higher than a King, but down to earth and physically lacking or unsightly. What is needed, you will have. Do not stumble over it."
"The One of Blades reversed. All that we see or seem is but a dream inside a
dream."
"The Four of Cups. The Five of Blades reversed. The One of Cups. If you hear a different drummer, dancer, take a chance... the path you choose to travel means the difference in the dance."
"The Five of Pentacles. The Two of Blades. The Eight of Cups. The Eight of Blades reversed. The Seven of Cups reversed. Two of Pentacles. We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by lone sea breakers and standing by desolate streams; world builders and world forsakers on whom the pale moon shines. Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world."
"You have what is needed from me. I can help you no more."