MS-0008 · The Interim · card 1 of 7
Bethesda
Healing is already under his hand, and he has lain here so long he no longer knows if he wants it.
- Element
- Water
- Tense
- Present, unresolved
- The hand
- That could not take
The card
He lies on a mossy ledge at the edge of a lit pool, half-risen, one hand reaching down until it barely breaks the surface. Around him the stone is worn into smooth hollows the shape of his body, some older and further back from the water, marking how many years he has lain here. The sprites play in the shallows with no interest in him at all — nothing is being withheld, and no one is waiting. This card asks the oldest question in the section: do you want to be made well, and have you been this way so long that you no longer know.
To sit with
What would you lose if you were made well?
What is already within reach that no one is keeping from you?
