"I'm not going to ask that," Theodore said as he gathered up the cards. Then he offered them to Jamie again, which was not something he pretty much ever did, outside of having the person he was reading shuffle. "I...if you'd like to look at them more."
He thought about Jamie's question, and then remembered something he'd read, a few weeks before school had started. "Before I...came back here," he said slowly. "I did a reading. About what was to come and...and it said we'd be trapped in illusion, that confusion and chaos would reign. I..." He looked away. "It shook me. I didn't want...couldn't have more of that."