Re: Nick & Wren: Fortunes
Small towns, perhaps, were made for generations. But carnivals weren't. Carnivals were meant for outcasts and oddities. They were for people who didn't provide social security numbers, and who took their pay in cash. Carnies all had their secrets, and they were comprised entirely of them. There was a reason people left the paved streets and buildings of society, and there was a reason people moved into tents and trailers. Clows, freaks, fortune tellers, dancing girls, and they only performed in woods and under big tops because the real world wouldn't suit. She was no different. She was an outcast, a thing outside, and the tent felt like home. Even with her new walls above the music store, this place felt right in her bones. She belonged.
"I always trust my gut. It doesn't always make people happy, and it doesn't always turn out for the best." This was a true statement spoken softly, agreement in the way she inclined her head sweetly at the end of the words. Hookerville had been like that, and no one had liked her buying it, and no one had liked her giving it away. But it was the right things to do, and it was the right thing to come back here. This, too, she felt in her bones. "Your good moments, the ones where you felt everything went right, how did you make those choices?" She asked the question out of curiosity, and no fortune telling involved. Truthfully, she wanted to know, this woman without foundation. She no longer told stories and claimed them for her own, but she still liked to listen.
She only smiled when he commented about her words. Things came to her, and crystal balls were nothing, and hands weren't required. She smiled, and then she spoke. "Would you feel better if I pretended, cher? I could find a ball and pretend to gaze into it, or I could touch your hand and close my eyes. I could pretend something seeped through from your skin to mine. I could pretend truth came to me like this." She could. As for the other man, she shook her head. "Je ne sais pas, ami. He is darkness to me now. Will you see him?"