MS-0013 · The Interim · card 6 of 7
Confluence
The streams between them have already joined, and the two of them still haven't.
- Element
- Water
- Tense
- Present, unresolved
- The hand
- That could not take
The card
Two streams meet and become one without seam or resistance, and the sprites of both rush together into a single delighted tangle. On either bank stand a man and a woman, ankle-deep, close enough to touch and not touching, each rooted in their own water. Between them a small sprite holds up a cup that neither is looking at. This card is the section's only other person, and it says plainly that the water has already done what the two of them have not.
To sit with
What keeps you standing on your own bank?
What is already being offered between you that neither of you has noticed?
Related cards
The ErrandThe card before.He is too busy with the cloth to notice the light on his back, and it is healing him anyway.
The ThawThe next card.Spring is arriving all around him, and he hasn't decided whether he wanted the ice to go.
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.