Lilia placed the card in the middle, at the space of the Traveler; the card representing her in this passage. "Impathetic, intuitive, inner voice to be trusted."
"Yes, you're a mensch, Lilia," Agatha commented, observing the sword-filled ceiling that was still coming down—alas, at a slower pace than before, but it did not seem it would stop anytime soon.
"But let's say we place a card."
"No sword." You commented next, realizing that at least nothing was flying towards you, which you never expected to count as a relief in your prolonged life.
"If she got the card right, why doesn't the ceiling stop?" Jen questioned, her worry growing the closer the ceiling came down, the closer those swords were to her and the rest of you.
Lilia pulled the next card. "Three of Pentacles. Collaboration, Community, I needed you... my coven," Immediately, she got a flash of the list she had written for Agatha.
The names she had listed as the coven members Agatha needed.
Lilia Calderu
Jennifer Kale
Agatha Harkness
Alice Wu...
A black heart...
And no other name...
As she focused on the present, she realized that your name was never on the list. Before she could question it, before she could try to figure it out, her hand went for the next card.
"The Path Behind...The Knight of Wands. Full of fire. Fights bravely." She announced loudly as she placed the card down, getting momentarily a flash of Alice's sacrifice in saving Agatha from the vengeful spirit of her evil mother.
Billy, the taller of the group and also the one with those huge black horns on his head, was the first to have to bend and try to avoid his impalement.
"We're running out of time." He exclaimed.
Lilia pulled the next card. "The Path Ahead...High Priestess. Immense spiritual power, unable or unwilling to use it." As she placed the card on its respective place on the spread, she got flames from her first meeting with Jen; the banner's background was the same as her card.
"Don't stop, Lilia!" Jen, the main subject of this momentary memory, encouraged the older witch, with whom she had surprisingly bonded during their little time in the tunnels.
"Obstacles..." Lilia pulled the next card, but as she did, an extra card left the deck and slowly levitated towards the floor. She noticed, but her mind quickly focused on the card in her hands. "Three of Swords. Heartbreak, sorrow, grief." She remembered the moment Teen almost died, a devastated Agatha holding his head, three branches behind her crossing her the same way they crossed the card.
"Agatha!" you called and pulled her lower, forcing her to bend since, for a moment, she had forgotten she had that ridiculous pointy hat on top of her head.
Lilia heard the cries of worry but remained focused, close to finishing the spread. "The Windfall...Tower reversed. Disaster, destruction,
sudden upheaval, but reversed means miraculous transformation." A quick flash of the Barmichva of Willliam and the shot of the tower reversed in her glass sphere. And with shaky hands, she pulled the last card. "And finally, the Destination..."
The card's sight, so familiar yet so haunting, made her gasp. She remembered the tunnels, the Ouija Board spelling a certain word, the summoning, the day she found her own maestro's body, and the figure standing behind it.
And she remembered the ways a certain Green Witch looked at you... the familiarity that seemed to exist... and the polarity represented.
"....death..." Lilia exclaimed and managed to place the card down, stopping the sword inches from harming her and her coven.
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Moon Phases (Agatha Harkness X Fem!Reader)
FanfictionYou have a past with Agatha, one as old as your age. Your roads often met, but she left you behind more than once. Now, once again, your paths cross, but this time, it is intentional. It started as a one-shot on my Tumblr account (mr-ys-phantasma)...
