Shrieky doesn't need to look at the card for long to recognize that the end which it depicts is not a pleasant one. If he reflects, he can see how the first two cards could apply to his own life, but the third, he hopes is exclusively for the fortune teller.

"If it tells you that this will happen, then can't you be careful? Don't trust anyone with anything important in the near future?" He touches the table just beside the third card, tapping his fingers lightly against the wood, as if he's anxious about making contact with the card itself. "It doesn't need to be something important, that you're tricked about."

Then a thought occurs. He could trick her. He could just snatch the four Shekels that are sitting on the table and run, and she would have been tricked all this time into thinking that he was a paying customer. He would fulfill the prophesy, her future would have arrived without any cost to her lifeblood, and he could give her the money back at some point when disaster wasn't immanent.

Would it actually avert her being tricked though? Or would he only be adding another misery to an unhappy future? Making decisions was difficult.