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to matthew, for the soapstone to allison, for telling me dashiell was the wrong name and to both of you, for being amazing siblings seven years ago while some rooms on the estate had monsters hiding beneath the beds, tella swore her mother’s suite concealed enchantment. hints of emerald light dusted the air as if fairies came to play whenever her mother left. the room smelled of flowers plucked from secret gardens, and even when there wasn’t a breeze, the sheer curtains billowed around the magnificent canopy bed. above, a citrine chandelier greeted tella with the musical sounds of kissing glass, making it easy for her to imagine the suite was a bewitched portal to another world. tella’s tiny feet made no sound as she tiptoed across thick ivory carpets to her mother’s dresser. quickly, she stole a look over her shoulder and then snatched her mother’s jewelry box. slick …
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slipped it on in case she’d grown. but this day, right as tella slid on the ring, she noticed something else. the chandelier above her stilled as if it, too, had been caught by surprise. tella knew every item in her mother’s jewelry case by heart: a carefully folded velvet ribbon edged in gold, bloodred scarlet earrings, a tarnished silver bottle that her mother claimed held angel tears, an ivory locket that wouldn’t open, a jet wristlet that looked as if it belonged on the arm of a witch rather than her mother’s elegant wrist. the only item tella never touched was the dirty-gray sachet, which smelled of moldy leaves and charnel-sweet death. it keeps the goblins away, her mother once teased. it kept tella away as well. but today, the ugly little purse flickered, drawing tella toward it. one moment it looked like a bundle of rot and smelled …
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tom of the card. tella shuddered. she did not like the name, and she was not fond of cages, even pearly ones. suddenly she had the feeling that her mother would not want her seeing these cards, but that didn’t stop tella from turning over another. the name at the bottom of this one was the prince of hearts. it showed a young man with a face made of angles, and lips as sharp as two knife blades. one hand near his pointed chin clasped the hilt of a dagger, and red tears fell from his eyes, matching the blood staining the corner of his narrow mouth. tella flinched as the prince’s image flickered, there and gone, the same way the foul sachet had wavered earlier. she should have stopped then. these cards were definitely not toys. yet a part of her felt as if she was meant to find …
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issed by the stars. though just then tella watched her mother turn moonstone pale as her eyes latched on to the upturned images of the maiden death and the prince of hearts. “where did you find these?” her mother’s sweet voice remained, but her hands swiftly snatched the cards, giving tella the impression she’d done something very wrong. and while tella often did things she wasn’t supposed to, usually her mother didn’t mind. she’d gently correct her daughter, or occasionally tell her how to get away with her little crimes. it was her father who was easily angered. her mother was the soft breath of air that blew out his sparks before they could ignite into flames. but now her mother looked as if she wanted to start a fire and use the cards for kindling. “i found them in your jewelry box,” tella said. “i’m sorry. i didn’t know …
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tella said. “that’s right,” her mother said. “your future can be whatever you wish. we all have the power to choose our own destiny. but, my sweet, if you play with those cards, you give the fates pictured inside them the opportunity to shift your path. people use decks of destiny, similar to the one you just touched, to predict the future, and once a future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing, and it will fight very hard to bring itself about. this is why i need you to never touch those cards again. do you understand?” tella nodded, though she didn’t truly understand; she was still at that tender age when the future seemed too far away to be real. it also did not escape her notice that her mother never said where the cards came from. and that made tella’s fingers clench a little tighter around …

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to matthew, for the soapstone to allison, for telling me dashiell was the wrong name and to both of you, for being amazing siblings seven years ago while some rooms on the estate had monsters hiding beneath the beds, tella swore her mother’s suite concealed enchantment. hints of emerald light dusted the air as if fairies came to play whenever her mother left. the room smelled of flowers plucked from secret gardens, and even when there wasn’t a breeze, the sheer curtains billowed around the magnificent canopy bed. above, a citrine chandelier greeted tella with the musical sounds of kissing glass, making it easy for her to imagine the suite was a bewitched portal to another world. tella’s tiny feet …

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