MAJOR ARCANA: Part Four, Chapter 1

Counter, Original, Spare, Strange

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PART FOUR

Chapter 1. | Counter, Original, Spare, Strange

Ellen Chandler at 50 years old. An unseasonably Hyperborean wind—it was mid-November now—roared through the Jewish cemetery and whipped her long gray coat and her long whitening hair all around her figure and face, both of them thin as ever. She immured her hands in her long pockets and blinked away the blinding tears stung out of her eyes by the cold, by the place. She stood above Marco Cohen’s small black gravestone, blank except for his incised name and dates, dates not amounting even to 40 years.