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The Cartomancer's Last Hand
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Mireille keeps losing small, learning the Queen's tells. By the time her hair has gone gray and her hands are spotted, she finally moves. 'I'll bet ten years on this hand,' she says. The Queen, greedy now, agrees at once.
Mireille wins, but pity stops her. She doesn't take the Queen's last years. 'Go,' she says. 'You're free. Just leave the river.' The Queen weeps real tears, bows, and walks up the bank into the dawn, an ordinary woman at last.
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