The room reeked of winter and wine as two unexpected guests dropped by the Wish Shop. The wooden sliding doors were decorated with a string of lights and bowed bells hung from different corners of the room.
"I didn't anticipate clients on a Christmas eve." Yuuko mewed stretching on her soft cushion. On a table beside her, a freshly opened almost empty bottle of wine rested.
"I'm sorry but we had some questions about her sister." Sakura spoke.
"Oh yes... The memory lantern girl..." Yuuko sipped from her glass.
"Could you tell us what she wished for... And if possible... Why?" Kaguya asked.
Yuuko stood up and stretched her long arms. Her long hair fell down her shoulders like water crashing on icy rocks. Her pale skin looked like the dull light of the moon.
"I told you this earlier... That I need something in return..." She sighed.
"Will this do...?" Kaguya asked as she held an artifact in her palm.
Yuuko picked it up with her long fingers and clasped it in her hand. It was a key, with a bird beak and wings, exactly the same one Sakura received when she was first captured the Clow Cards.
Sakura contacted Kaguya just as Ayumi disclosed her secret.
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Cards of Yesterday
FanfictionA continuation of my previous fan fiction, 'Cards of Tomorrow'. Soon after Touya and Yukito's wedding, strange things begin to resurface as a new enemy arrives. Sakura's council of magic speculates that the enemy is looking for a chance to steal he...