Chapter 10: Feign and Fortune

I felt like a new zombie, i had an eyepatch and a patch of gauze, still didn't have a nose or a heart or 2 eyes anymore, but that wasn't the point. I felt like the world was my oyster. I then remembered Skull Boy who had introduced me to my new life, (call it a hunch, but I think his room was the one with the skull shaped window) I made my way upstairs and knocked on his door. "Come in" a voice answered.

Skull Boy's room was large with a telescope going through his enormous skull shaped window and then I looked he had a large number of books and a coffin shaped bed (I heard of sleep like death but I think that's pushing the envelope a little too much).

"Hey Skull Boy,

"Oh hey Zaí how's it going, have you met everyone yet?"

"Sure have: you, Ruby, Doom, Iris, Misery, Frank, Len, Poe and Scaredy. I think I made a good first impression on everyone."

"Cool" he said shuffling a deck of cards. "Uhh..whatcha got there?" I asked.

"Oh these are tarot cards, they're for predicting the future, I think that I must come from a long line of mystics and fortune tellers."

"Wow, does it really work?"

"Well, I haven't exactly tested it out yet" he said sheepishly.

"Can you test it out on me?"

"Primo suggestion Zaí!" He exclaimed.

He layed the deck on a small table and spread them out. I sat down. "Ok" he said in a mysterious voice.

"Pick up 3 cards of your choosing and the future will become clear to you, then it ever has before."

I followed his instructions.

"Now let us see what the future holds for you." The first card portrayed a man running away from an onslaught of shadowy figures. "My my, I sense that your past will come back to haunt you." I hoped that didn't mean having to face the witches. The second card was much more positive, it portrayed a girl with a golden question mark above her head. "It asseems as though you will come face to face with the greatest question you'll ever confront." I had no clue what that could be and on the final card portrayed two people hugging "And finally, after a chain of misfortune you will find what you have sought for, acceptance."

"Wow" I said bewildered "And do you think that might actually happen to me?"

"Well, it's not 100% but it's widely known that tarot cards never lie."

"Well, thanks Skull Boy, I think that's really cool, but if it's ok with you I need to go thank Ruby for letting me come here."

"Yeah, of course, Ruby always looks out for all of us" he said blushing a little "I mean.. uhh..she's a pretty good friend, yeah." He panicked and giggled nervously.

"Alright, see you later."

"See ya." I could tell that Skull Boy liked Ruby more than a friend, he did a pretty lousy job of hiding it.