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Bianca Dunstan (allseeingeye) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-11-24 22:50:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 04 2003, character: bianca dunstan, character: lavender brown

What do you see?
Characters: Bianca and Lavender
Setting: At Lavender's flat, in the evening. Maybe around 5pm or so on November 4th
Summary: The girls get together to exercise their divining skills.
Rating: Work safe

Bianca found herself going through the motions for the rest of the afternoon. Her mind was already several hours in the future, when she'd be meeting up with Lavender to do some Divination. the thought of gettinga better handle on her vision, and maybe being able to discuss it with someone who put stock in predicting the future sat well with her, and she was actually excited to go.

She donned a grey coat over her green sweater dress and headed out to the address Lavender had specificed. It was easier to Floo since she had the address, so she arrived right on time, sneezing as she bushed excess powder from her nose. Only when she stepped out of the fireplace did she manage to get a look around and look for Lavender.

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lavishly
2011-11-29 10:35 pm UTC (link)

While readings could and often were possible, she didn't find them private. In a way, the cards, the leaves, they were her worship and she had no hesitation in doing in front of other people, even strangers. Lavender shrugged and set her own cards down, not bothered by the fact that Bianca preferred to use her own set. She supposed they could be like a wand in that way.

Lavender was about to object to her picking the pile because she knew she didn't have the sort of focus needed to give a clear meaning. However, if she wanted a blind reading she would give her than and then Lavender was going to get the reading she wanted.

Still, she wasn't going to just ruin this from the start. She would give it a try. Focusing in on the nightmares that weren't and the woman with the red hair she looked over the three piles for a moment. "That one," she said pointing to the card on her left.

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allseeingeye
2011-12-02 03:16 am UTC (link)

Bianca cleared her mind as Lavender picked a deck and she stacked the cards, the pile Lavender was drawn to on top. Silently, she drew the first card, laying out the start of the basic Celtic cross pattern. The first one she drew, representing the present was Temperance, reversed. "This is the present. Temperance represents a search for peace. Reversed could mean that peace had been disturbed, blocked or otherwise made hard to achieve," Well that was bloody obvious, no matter what was being read.

Bianca laid another card, across the first. "Current challenge: Judgment. One journey may be over but another is beginning. The challenge is taking the first step, taking the right steps, or even acknowledging that there's a journey to be made." Once the reading began, Bianca felt both more comfortable and oddly more nervous. She was a bit worried what the reading would yield, but she felt more herself when she was divining.

She looked up at Lavender for a moment as she readied the next card, the distant past card.

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lavishly
2011-12-02 03:26 am UTC (link)

Beyond the outcome of the reading, it was interesting to see how someone else lain out a spread and read the cards. Lavender always did them all at once, needing to see the full picture before she came to any sort of conclusions. It was interesting to watch Bianca take it one at a time. Interesting and just a little bit nervous over if she would see those specific cards again.

The three of hearts and the wheel of fortune reversed. They still haunted her and she wasn't sure how this could be worse. Her spread a few days ago said it was bad, that wasn't a surprise.

It was all an inevitable sort of journey full of pain and suffering. She hadn't meant to say that out loud. But it didn't matter, she needed the how, the why, the what, anything about what came next.

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allseeingeye
2011-12-05 04:17 pm UTC (link)

The next card was going to lead Bianca into the meat of it, she was certain. The third card, placed above the first, was what the one being read was most concerned about, thinking about. Bianca laid the card down. The three of swords. It was never really a good card, but it didn't surprise her. The three swords sharply piercing a vibrant red heart was a clear image of pain and suffering.

She glanced up at Lavender as she said, "You know this card, don't you? It's a symbol of pain, betrayal, suffering...It can be what's already happened, but could also be taking as a warning for something yet to come." That might become clearer as she continued the reading. She laid the next card, the root of the problem, beneath the first. The priestess reversed. Bianca sucked in a breath. Could this card refer to the red-haired woman in their dreams and visions? The woman on the card was blond, but she represented power, duality. Reversed, the power could be strongly negative.

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lavishly
2011-12-06 12:04 am UTC (link)

The room seemed to drop out when she saw the card in the three position. That was how it could be worse than before. Lavender hated that card. She knew people who pulled it from their decks because of what it implied, thought that just keeping it was asking for trouble. She had never felt that way, but she might reconsider it now.

"As a result, in the ten position," she said when she found her voice again. "But in the three..." She shook her head and pressed her eyes closed like that would undo what was done. But it was written, wasn't it? That was what she had there before, this was fate.

"Just get to the ten position. I need...I need to see that."

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allseeingeye
2011-12-06 09:36 pm UTC (link)

Bianca suppressed and shiver and silently laid out the rest of the cards. The Ace of Wands appeared in the recent past, what brought about the current situation. It was a symbol of creativity, of energy, desire and power. Someone - Lavender or someone else wanted something - strongly - enough to take the actions that brought them to this point. The next card, a reminder to help deal with or understand the current situation was the four of pentacles, a card or financial gain. It didn't have to mean money exactly, but that which made someone in some way richer.

The sixth card, the difficult-to-change future showed the king of pentacles. Like the fabled King Midas, his touch was as gold. There would be riches, success, gain, power, and it was not going to be easily derailed. Bianca didn't know for sure why that thought gave her chills.

The seventh card - what one fears - was the queen of pentacles, reversed. A woman of power, when she was upright, he was nearly as strong as the empress, but with maternal instincts. Reversed, it could symbolize the loss of that strength, a woman no longer in control of herself. The eight card, that which others would say or suggest, was the two of wands. It signified the power to make dreams reality. Normally it would have been a good card, but based on the nature of dreams lately, Bianca wasn't so sure.

The ninth card, an important person in the future, showed the two of cups, which could mean two people of importance who were very close to one another, but not likely lovers, as they lover's card still lay in the deck. The last card Bianca drew, the strong future, the card that tied the rest of the reading together, was the Wheel of Fortune, reversed. It meant change was likely to happen, almost a certainty. Reversed meant that change was unpredictable, dramatic. In a positive reading, it would not draw much concern - it could symbolise a wedding, a child, a business venture. In a negative reading, it could symbolise monumental loss, uncontrollable negative occurrences, and a sign that one's fears were well-rooted and likely to come to pass.

Bianca was shaking when she laid the last card and she couldn't meet Lavender's eyes.

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lavishly
2011-12-07 02:27 am UTC (link)

She didn't recall breathing as the cards were lain out before them. Each one told more of a story she didn't want, sending her stomach into all sorts of knots and twists. Dreams becoming real, the king of pentacles and then the wheel of fortune again. Lavender swallowed hard.

"It's all going to," she started then stopped. She didn't want Bianca to vocalize the reading, especially not if it would only confirm that Lavender constructed in her head. So much worse than the cards just a few days ago. Whatever was happening was getting stronger.

"I think I'm going to be sick," she said hand over her mouth. It was the sort of overly dramatic thing she might say anyway, but this time it was actually warranted. Because now she was remembering the pixies tearing at her flesh, she should see Luna being eviscerated. Someone's teeth being pulled while they were conscious.

Without any further warning, she bolted from her position on the sofa heading right for the closet toilet to make good on her earlier words.

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allseeingeye
2011-12-07 04:00 pm UTC (link)

Bianca had been expecting an unpleasant reaction from lavender, but not one quite so severe. She wanted to ask what it was specifically the other woman was so afraid of, so worried about, that the reading - which was bad enough - had affected her so strongly. But before she could ask, Lavender ran from the room.

Bianca was left with tea and remnants of cake, neither of which she wanted any longer. After a moment, Bianca shivered again, fear icing her spine, and she quickly moved to put the cards away. She didn't want to see them staring back at her and she definitely didn't want them still out when Lavender returned.

One thing was for certain: Bianca didn't want another vision, not while she was in this frame of mind. She sincerely hoped that when the next one came, it wouldn't leave her feeling like this reading did. After another moment, she got up and followed Lavender. Outside the door, she called quietly, "Lavender? Are you all right?"

Obviously she wasn't. Bianca frowned. She;d been invited over by someone as interested in two of her favorite pastimes - baking and divination - and the result had been disastrous. It would take her some time to force herself out socially again, that was for sure.

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lavishly
2011-12-07 05:31 pm UTC (link)

She was really regretting that steak now. Maybe she would just stop eating if this was what happened. Lavender was also regretting not closing the door behind her because there was nothing classy or welcoming about the sight she presented. She didn't immediately look over at Bianca, but rather first went to the sink. Tying her hair back, she took another moment to rinse out her mouth.

"I'm...I don't know," she said look up at her reflection in the mirror. Lavender took a calming breath before looking over at Bianca. "It's just a lot of things all at once and what it the nightmares are going to come true? I mean this is three of swords, wheel of fortune bad. Twice."

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allseeingeye
2011-12-08 01:30 am UTC (link)

Bianca hovered where she was, unsure if she should move further. "I'm sorry," she said quietly. "I had...no idea it would be that bad." She hesitated at Lavender's question. "It may not mean they come true. I don't know what it means. But you're right. It's bad."

But at least they knew it was bad. How could they not know it would be bad? Harry Potter was dead, murdered by some unknown, people were being plagued by terrible nightmares, and there had to be something going on. Problem was, despite knowing something was happening, they had no idea exactly what.

Worse Bianca wasn't sure there was any way to stop it.

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lavishly
2011-12-08 01:58 am UTC (link)

"Only you don't believe that - that it won't come true. Not really." She may have only known Bianca for a short while, but she didn't their similarities were only as vague as their interests in baking and divination. "I mean it's too repetitive of a spread for it to meaning nothing."

Then something struck her. What is Bianca had the vision because she was the one behind it all? It wasn't impossible and it wasn't that far of a reach. She had read hair too. Suddenly Lavender felt very trapped, needing to move back out into the more open area of her flat, maybe give that tea a go from the kitchen.

"You scattered the cards?" She asked, wondering why she had turned her back to Bianca, even for a moment.

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allseeingeye
2011-12-08 02:09 am UTC (link)

"I don't know what I believe," she replied honestly. "I haven had those nightmares; I don't know what they're like. I know what happens in my vision and I really hope that doesn't come true either." She hedged backward, wishing she hadn't come, wishing she were still at home, buried in her robe, reading Jasmine King.

"I scattered them. put them away. I should...go." Bianca tore her eyes away from Lavender, unable to look at her. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for any..." She shook her head and turned, going back to the other room to grab her bag. Unless Lavender called after her, she was heading right for the floor and going home.

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lavishly
2011-12-08 03:10 am UTC (link)

Lavender moved to ask her to stay, but the words fell short on her lips. What would she say? More importantly, what would happen if Bianca did stay? It was probably better for to go, to not have anything linger between them. There was already enough. So, she said nothing watching the other woman leave.

Once Bianca was gone she was pulling out her notebook and writing down the reading. Even adding her own theories, or thoughts even, to come back to when she didn't feel so scattered and pulled in so many different directions.

The only thing she was certain of was that she would be watching Bianca Dunstan know, trying to figure her out.

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