“Oh, Fenrir’s teeth!” She banged the top of the desk in dismay. “Fuck being nice about it. FUCK!” She looked around the now destroyed room. “where in the Nine Worlds have that pendulum gone off to, this time?” She threw a pillow across the room in frustration.
As she slowly put the reading room back together, she tried to remember the last place she saw the pendulum. She remembered pulling open the desk drawer and finding the tarot decks were piled in an unruly mess. She remembered emptying the drawer to properly arrange the contents and finding the oft misplaced pendulum. But by the time the drawer was in an orderly affair, the pendulum had gone missing. Again.
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