She has a lot of it right, right down to imagining some lanky teen lashing out at anything that makes sense to him in that moment. It's incredibly charming - though at the moment, she could tell him that the next card represented a sea monster he vanquished, and he'd be charmed.
"You think that's my father?" he asks, keeping his voice as neutral as possible. Back in the 80s, James Randi asked the psychic fraudster Inga Pachanko to demonstrate her ability to do a reading on a group of photos he brought to her, all of them featuring a handsome man with brown hair. What he hadn't mentioned, of course, was the man's name - Ted Bundy - and Pachanko's purported ESP hadn't allowed her to pick up the reason he became a household name. This feels like a kinder version than that, letting her spin a tale without letting her know what he thinks of when he hears order and chaos put head to head.
(Besides, there's no denying that the Emperor makes an excellent card to stand in for his father. Just like a teenaged Dana Scully, maybe this reading contains multitudes.)
"I'm not telling you one way or the other," he adds. "No commentary from the peanut gallery at all over here. So the three of us went recklessly out on our faithful steeds - and if you guess the car, I'll make sure I tip you more than ten percent for this. What kind of truth were we looking for?"
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"You think that's my father?" he asks, keeping his voice as neutral as possible. Back in the 80s, James Randi asked the psychic fraudster Inga Pachanko to demonstrate her ability to do a reading on a group of photos he brought to her, all of them featuring a handsome man with brown hair. What he hadn't mentioned, of course, was the man's name - Ted Bundy - and Pachanko's purported ESP hadn't allowed her to pick up the reason he became a household name. This feels like a kinder version than that, letting her spin a tale without letting her know what he thinks of when he hears order and chaos put head to head.
(Besides, there's no denying that the Emperor makes an excellent card to stand in for his father. Just like a teenaged Dana Scully, maybe this reading contains multitudes.)
"I'm not telling you one way or the other," he adds. "No commentary from the peanut gallery at all over here. So the three of us went recklessly out on our faithful steeds - and if you guess the car, I'll make sure I tip you more than ten percent for this. What kind of truth were we looking for?"