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[ten_of_swords]

He leads her from that room into the dining hall where all the cards have gathered.

Choice stands behind them, his hazel eyes bright as he takes in those that have joined them this momentous day.

"Our Queen of Swords!" he announces. They cheer, and Moon rushes up to give her new sister a tight hug. Others begin to do the same -- Skill with Chloe in her arms, Fortune with his warm blue eyes, blind Justice...

Ruin's hand remains on her lower back, never leaving her side, as he watches her being received by the family.

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[destroy_restart]

Tower turned to follow her; he would return later to talk to the new Queen of Swords, she who had arrived at the good end of change, of which he ruled the painful beginning.

"Let us lurk in a corner," he said, "instead of being the skeletons at the feast. Optimism is an addiction to the sentients, I fear."

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And One Crow, who symbolised the initial feelings of loss that change brings with it. Loss and regret, though regret was the purvue of the fifth Cup-sibling, not the fifth child in the Pentacles family.

"Of course."

Away from the festivities they could indulge their notoriously somber attitudes without upsetting aanyone else in the process.