"I am always honest, except when I am not." She declares airily, and places the deck on the table before Stephanie, spreading them out into a fan. The cards seem a little old and worn, the design on the back muted black and copper.

"In this game, you pick any three cards without looking at them, and then I tell you how they apply to your past, present, and future. Of course, the cards know nothing of any of that; they are just cards, with meanings and archetypes ascribed to them, meanings and archetypes that apply to all of us at one point or another. Its use is then not in divination, but as a mirror. A perspective. A way of looking at where you came from, who you are now, and where you're going."

The woman gestures, mock-grandly. "Pick. It's more interesting than a self-help book."