Reaching out, the woman spreads the deck on the table in a neat fan, face down.

"You pick any three cards without looking at them, and they will stand for your past, present, and future. The most basic Tarot reading you can get, more or less, which is why it's priced so low."

She sounds pragmatic about it, a somewhat different approach than the one Balthazar used for Shrieky, Arya, or Jack. Martha hasn't really been on his radar so far, and she seems to be perfectly human — with people like her, he steps a little more delicately, keeps more of his personality under wraps, at least at first.