At those words, Fors stopped reflecting and hurriedly looked toward the head of the Bronze Long Table. "Honorable Mr. Fool, I've obtained three pages of Roselle's Diary."
Not bad. The more members we have, the more channels we have. A lot of things will grow like a snowball... Klein nodded slightly. "Very good."
Roselle's Diary? Emlyn, learning for the first time that those pages were a diary, felt as though he had heard something extraordinary again.
Under his puzzled gaze, Fors conjured the three pages and passed them to Mr. Fool.
Only after picking up the pages did Klein remember what he had forgotten. He chuckled and introduced them.
"This is our new member, Mr. Moon.
"This gathering is called the Tarot Club. The others are..."
Moon? Alice studied him with interest but did not speak first.
Mr. Moon? I thought the person who chose the Moon card would be a woman... Audrey's thoughts wandered as she offered a polite greeting.
Emlyn, likewise, tried to guess the other members' identities, Pathways, Sequence levels, and affiliations. He was especially curious about Miss Fate, who struck him as very strange.
After a brief observation, Alger decided that the new member, Mr. Moon, was just as guileless as he appeared and posed no threat to his position.
While the Tarot Club's old and new members studied one another, Klein finished reading the diary. As he made its pages disappear, he said:
"You may begin."
That detail confirmed Audrey's suspicion that Mr. Fool's earlier action had only been meant to express his anger. She glanced at Alice with mixed feelings.
Alice did not notice Audrey's glance. Instead, she looked with concern at her courier, Derrick the Sun, and asked:
"Mr. Sun, did you escape the loop?"
Derrick nodded honestly. "Thanks to your reminder and