MS-0012 · The Interim · card 5 of 7
The Errand
He is too busy with the cloth to notice the light on his back, and it is healing him anyway.
- Element
- Water
- Tense
- Present, unresolved
- The hand
- That could not take
The card
He crouches on the bank wringing out a cloth, brow furrowed, entirely inside the task. Behind and above him dozens of sprites turn in a slow spiral, tipping amber vessels, pouring a column of warm light down onto his back and neck. He does not notice. This card holds the section's central mercy and its central sorrow at once: the cure arrives sideways while you are busy, and it works whether or not you look up.
To sit with
What task have you made more urgent than being cared for?
What might already be working on you, sideways, while your attention is elsewhere?
Related cards
SaltThe card before.He came out of the water with a few grains in his hand, and nothing tells him whether it is enough.
ConfluenceThe next card.The streams between them have already joined, and the two of them still haven't.
BethesdaThe section's first card.Healing is already under his hand, and he has lain here so long he no longer knows if he wants it.