The campfire sent little flames jumping into the night. The two companions had a small meal of bread and cheese, traveling food. Now they sat sipping hot drinks and talking.
Cosima had known all her life, that she was a spirit seeker, her parents had both been bonded, her family rich in love.
"My mother told me when I was young that the spirit in her and the one in my father together had given me my eyes. Angle eyes, so I could see the beauty in the world, and even in the dark things"
"I wish I could see thru your eyes then, I was blind to the truth till very recently."
Cherry Blossom sighs, something about Cosima is making her want to open up, is it the spirit she talks so freely about?
"I have a gift, at least I thought it was a gift. I can tell your fortune with a set of cards. I was taught by my mother and she by her mother. The story goes that a woman came to my grandma in her dreams. She was a young girl, with short soft brown hair and a short gown of cream and brown. In grandma's dreams this ghost, for she was that, taught her to make the cards and to use them. Then she told grandma to pass the knowledge to her daughters. That it was the place of an ancestor to be the beginning and the place of a descendent to be the end. That the man she loves is in great despair. That she can no longer help him for she was no longer of this world. Her gift to him is to be love, for unknown to him the great love they shared has made it possible for him to love again. He will learn this thru the cards. Both my mother and I have wondered if either of us would be the one, or maybe it will be my daughter or granddaughter. That woman's love sent her to the past to save a man's future."
Cosima could sense that there was more, something happened to this girl to send her running far from her home.
"Go on" Cosima said gently, "You have more to tell."
"I grew up doing readings, I loved to do them. Things like would the crops be plentiful, what will my baby be. They called me Tarot Girl in the village, and made me feel as if I were special. Then one day I met a man. I fell in love, I thought he loved me to, he told me he did. I found out thru the cards that what he really wanted was to use me to gain his fortune so he might buy the love of the one he truly desired. I was a fool."
"No you were not a fool. That man was, he turned his back on love for money, that is the most foolish thing that can be." The spirit in her whispers to her now, Tell her, tell her what you see with those angle eyes the spirits gave you.
"I will tell you what I see thru my eyes, Cherry Blossom, I see good, beauty, and I see love waiting. Don't give up it will come."
A single black feather falls to the ground next to the fire
"See this is a sign from the spirit within me, this is a good sign."