"I see echos gets around quickly within your family. While sharing whispers within shadows, he told me that you have hands within the language of the cards, 'One' was caught short on time so call so he didn't want to speak on behalf of you so quickly. But he seemed... Adamant. I hope your annoyance isn't directed to me, I'm not quite the publicly overt person to find.

"What do the card do for me...? I don't know, maybe it's a cue of thought in someones own pursuits, or what I may think of as the Voids 'eyes in the dark' from time to time... But I'm never certain. I wonder if its because I wish not to break the shroud of its charming numinous immersion?

"They bring an experience. My little spare time, and the weighing of 'hand and hearts' in the scales had me indulge them once, getting 'four' cards with the promise of three during that time. Maybe I should have expected our crossing within its message...

"Maybe I should get a pair, or does your tongue bring a degree of wain at such an idea?"

"I don't take the cards too literally, it works in layers of metaphor and personal reflection, there are more than just direct messages to interpret both individually alone and within the 'full hand', as you said... The Void does have rules, rules that matter to the existence of all things within this universe, the way you speak about this 'Deep' is more our own making in my eyes, we still even harm this stellar vessel with her own rules.

"Rules like... Thermodynamics. The blacksmith holds the tools, and bends the material to their needs... But what energy struck by the blacksmith reflects what comes out the quench, even the energy of their soul.

"The way you speak of this Devil, Strauss, seems almost second nature to a string of 'elites' within our Void, planting methods in ones hands and convinces them to play it out, the rule of entropy of what the soul can feel is removed... Is that a good future?--No most certainly not. I've heard similar whispers of those attaining to hold creation in their hands, like dictators with a manifest destiny over all others, wish to strip entropy from our linear experience.

"Myself would say the Devil is our own fabrications of evil. The fairy, our illuminating idolised mentality to what is good--But I have seen that meaning twisted with my own eyes. In my lands, it was a fate painful-beyond-death to be seen in & with the light.

"But lest I not forget that anarchist teachings also say the lands change along with the people... I can not think my land's rules would apply everywhere else.

"I said something similar to 'One' before too about being unlucky, such is fate to find myself within the swing of deaths blade. In the superstitions of some of my fellow Platformers, in dark times they put trust in the Demons they know, yet keep their distance... They know we bring bad news, but I mean no evil in heart to them. Let's say for the sins to the Void, the 'Devil'--No relation to Strauss-- keeps me in check and reminds me who belongs there.

"This comes with the caveat that I stay within the dealings of the new-frontiers, I put the Platforms ideals at the heart of my motives, it is a worthy challenge to uphold those ethics and ideals in such a 'hostile environment', yet be as flexible as the Void can be in her varying forms. So...

"So why not! I will see your view of the cards, if the fate of them brings a danger of mentality then I thank you for your caution. If one can be patient with my cryptic monologues that is...

"'Four', please, divulge."

"You have played a lot of cards, more than anyone else, and you still have one remaining in your hand... The ideas placed in these new fabrications is defined by the dream too, and dreams are made up by our mind reorganizing our interpretations into something barely perceivable. But in this age of Sirius, your mind can never truly be alone, even when one sleeps.

If the world changes around you when you play, listen to your the players like Death and the fairy are certain within this reality, potentially meaning more to your situation, but maybe you should begin understanding on how you perceive these participants. Dreams like these are not easy to remember, you are not just an observer, you an active player whom can make decisions within the rules of the realm.

Strauss is... an outlier, a solid manifestation too familiar for 'normal' dreams. He tells you the groundwork to those of an unknown Arcana and seems to take pleasure in your continued investments. If one card shook him only for a moment to sing his true song, then you should consider the cards he's played, and what they show him to be in both upright and mirrored-down. A lot of it shows leaving old worlds, forming the future in the extremes, beware if you decide to trust him to shape what you know and act on. I don't sleep with the most villainous beast haunting my mind constantly at night, even ones whom my instincts pilot me to terminate... but these days it's hard to find yourself being the sole voice in your dreams.

You have played a lot of cards, more than anyone else, and you still have one remaining in your hand... The ideas placed in these new fabrications is defined by the dream too, and dreams are made up by our mind reorganizing our interpretations into something hardly recognizable during its process. I know the cards provide a basis of motive, but their true meaning only becomes intertwined with those that they read from.

I'll never know the true worth or purpose of these cards and I won't write that story for you, either it's already enscribed or has yet to be written... but I will comment as this game sees cards going in all directions, up and down, to beware the mirror meanings. My judgement thinks the idea of a scorched earth to begin anew within the "Ascent" that should concern you, that was in your hand and now it's been played... What did you leave behind, and was it worth it to you?

And the "Blades"... Know your path within the life you're in, might conqers, but it will embolden only what is left behind. Be it in the person, or the ash left in the toil. Being told the the strongest survives is a tale as older than Humanity in Sirius, I on the other hand think those that fail to adapt willingly will find themselves conquered, or removed from the equations in total. We sit on a very turbulent moment in Sirius, hanging like Damocles blade, hidden beyond what most see through state guidelines and numb corporate ideals.

These hands are both cards and chips at the same time, the rules of the realm...? Not so clear. You're only seeing the result of what hand is played. Maybe you'll want to hold onto that hand for a little longer, the cards don't seem equal, you're placing more into that pot than everyone else... Or maybe it is the card you are supposed to keep, all that is you, is in there.

But should you trust my judgement? Depends if you value the cradle of a 'worthwhile life' being played for the games pot... Or what it'll cost you to win it, even if you intend to 'win'? If the universe, creation and the entire purpose of our temporal realm is to fall into the hands of one person... I would ask are they worth that power?

So, a small common commander of the Platform has insight into things most people would regard into the art of a mystical 'street-urchin', or do you consider my eyes worth the talk and time without currency...

Speaking of currency, 'One' wanted these deliveries. They're sitting in my haulers cargo hold right now, lots of medical equipment and questionably strong elixers, fresh from the undiluted masses of cryer wholesale shipments. Where does he want them, I saw there was a rather butcherous junker breakers yard in Omega-55 when I spoke to him earlier...? Does he still wish for these?

"To become a god... It's a familiar temptation, I would be careful if I were you, some organizations decree such a status a dangerous to the stability of all. I can't support your ambitions in this dream, but in my heart for the people around me, I wouldn't want you to lose yourself. I always ask to those who seize it is... 'What then?'

"It's always the eternal question I ask, and to become a template for the rest of the Void to thrive off. In my honesty, even I wouldn't wish myself to be the template to define the rest of eternity? To be an all seeing eye over the oblivious and fearful society? Only to perpetuate the horrors you fought to cease onto every temporal position or maybe just carve everything into something else on how you see fit, like an icarus-cycle in this life full of hard lessons...

"The blades, they stand alone, and therefore this will take the throne of existence and be the basis of everything, not matter how you try to shape it. But would you enjoy it for anything more than the moment of conquest of over Strauss, existence, and the Void? Because I see satisfaction in a enslaved Void harvested and built from, and to forever be, pain and blood.

"Natural selection means more than just our limited view of superiority In this linear realm, we least have the dignity to separate our capable minds beyond the aspects of animalistic ideals of 'progress', sometimes these alternatives branches speak volumes for finding ones self satisfaction. I think I've found my peace being capable as a helping caretaker... Instead of dictating over the rules of the Void and others, things seem easier when you're capable of working with the Void, rather than bend her to your will.

"But do not consider me naive and gentle because of my defence of what is good. Because in my hands, I would have dropped the cards, and cut the spine of Strauss in half, to release that shell of its haunted spirit... I don't pander to those who act like 'gods and masters', let alone those who have corruptive ambitions to our 'Ace of Pentacles'.

"For the sake of your next dream, I hope you win yourself... Rather than the game winning you."