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The Fool
Upright
Beginnings without ledger. The leap taken before the fall is calculated. Trust offered to a road that hasn't earned it yet.
Reversed
Hesitation dressed as wisdom. Recklessness dressed as faith. The cliff edge, stared at too long.
The Fool carries a bindle with nothing counted inside it. It carries no number, either — it walks before the deck begins, which is why it is the one card the Correspondence never bothered to seal.
Every other card was sealed on purpose. If you are reading this, you were meant to find a first door already open, and twenty-one more standing shut behind it.
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The next voice in the archive calls itself the Magician. It only answers to a word held up to a mirror. Somewhere on this page, one word already is.
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