Sarai shook her head. Where to begin? "It is not the possibility of a love relationship for him that worries me--quite the opposite," she responded to Kara's question. "It is the other cards. They predict what we have come to fear...and more so, what I fear: losing another family member to these troubled times."
She sighed. The cards were hardly ever wrong. But my interpretation could be, her mental voice reminded her. Somehow, her heart doubted it.
"The cards speak true--darkness has taken the Sceptre--but more so that Jules is central to Kore's banishment of Her dark twin--again.
"And though it sounds as if I am giving myself airs, I believe strongly that Zameera herself is speaking through these cards." At Kara's sharp intake of breath, Sarai stopped.
"Underworld's Queen in the fift
