Tarot Club : Casting A Web (1).

Loki examined the rune work on the Disk of Wishes and found it to be some of the most impeccable runes he'd ever seen carved in his very short life.

'Not even Nicolas is as good as this…'

'Was this an item I made when I went back in time?'

'But why isn't there any corruption on it?'

'Why is it so pristine?'

'…'

Loki pushed the matter to the back of his mind as something else took over.

'Regarding my identity as Gehrman Sparrow.'

'I could try and gauge what 'Adam' wants to do or plans to do regarding the rebirth of you-know-who that he is hinting at.'

'If I knew better I could plan about the situation…'

'But the question is how?'

'....Professor Snape?'

'He does have a history of being interested in the Visionary Pathway…pretty sure he could be baited with helping 'Adam' in some way.'

'So I could ask him…'

'But I'd need good bait.'

'Ah! I could do that.'

Loki's thoughts were soon distracted once again when he heard stray murmurings in his ear as he saw Mr. Devil's star pulsate and reverberate in the Sefirah Castle.

'He wants to make a sacrifice?'

'Ah…that Spectator Beyonder Characteristic and his need for me to make an item that could confound other people.'

'Well this is just an excuse to call an early Tarot Club meeting this month isn't it?'

Loki quickly took the sacrificed Beyonder characteristic from Mr. Devil, he was hiding his appearance so Loki couldn't see his true face, but Loki wasn't worried about that, since he could just as easily learn about that using divination in the Sefirah Castle or the Marauder's map.

Loki worked on the item for a while before becoming plenty tired for the day, so he fell asleep soon after, waking up only the next day after sleeping for ten hours straight.

He spent the day visiting the black lake, feeding and playing with his pets, finishing pending homework and reading random books in the library to increase his knowledge about the founders and the various things related to them.

He spent a long time searching for any images of the founders or even descriptions of their looks, but he wasn't able to find much.

'I could just ask Nicolas and Prenelle about it…'

'But there has to be an easier way to recognise them…'

In the end, having given up after skipping lunch to search for their appearances Loki tried something different.

He walled his room with a wall of spirituality and set up an altar with three candles on it.

"I"

"I pray for the power of darkness."

"I pray for the power of crimson."

"I pray for the God's loving grace."

"I pray for God's great powers to help me identify the people in the crystal in the Room of Conveniences."

"Night dew, a herb that belongs to the night, I pray for you to bestow powers to my incantation."

"Vanilla, a fragrance that belongs to the darkness, I pray for you to bestow powers to my incantation."

With his prayers done, Loki remained still for a few seconds before he felt like his vision was suddenly shrouded in darkness and was suddenly pulled into a dream.

Loki maintained his lucidity in the dream but he was constantly feeling the effect of being forcibly numbed to everything that was happening around him.

In the darkness that surrounded him, Loki suddenly saw a delicate feminine hand expel spirituality from her fingers, the spirituality slowly took the form of a symbol that Loki recognised, it was the concealment rune.

"Point me!" A feminine voice said and suddenly Loki saw an unnatural force bend the finger of the woman until it pointed in a random direction toward the distance.

The dream shattered soon after and Loki woke up.

'That….was that the way to identify the founders?'

'The point me spell seems familiar, wasn't it used to figure out the direction of True North?'

Loki frowned as he recalled all the details of the dream.

'So instead of simply using the spell as it is, if I append the symbol of the god or goddess I want to identify the point me spell will show me in which direction they exist?'

'The hell is this even allowed…'

'I guess it's so that the gods can decide on their own if they want their location to be revealed or not in an easy fashion?'

'So what do I do now?'

'Do I just append the spell with every God or Goddess' symbol until I get a match?'

After making sure he remembered everything from the short dream, Loki got up and left his room, going to the Room of Conveniences where he looked at the crystals and pulled out his bone wand.

Manipulating his spirituality after it exited the wand, Loki formed a peculiar symbol that related to one of the twenty-two Beyonder pathways.

He formed the symbol of a swirl inside an eye inside a star. It was the symbol that corresponded to the Hermit pathway.

"Point me!" Loki said while loosely resting his wand on top of his palm. And as soon as he did, his wand turned to point towards the only other crystal with a body inside it.

"Woah…" Loki grew a little surprised since he hadn't expected the solution to be so simple.

'I didn't expect one of them to actually be the true god of the hermit pathway.'

'I guessed at least one of you was a Hermit because Salazar said that Rowena was the one that made the modern magical system, which was only possible with either the Hermit or the Paragon pathways…'

'I guess I lucked out.'

"So you'll be the one I'm going to be helping next?" Loki spoke out loud as he looked at the lady trapped in the crystal from up close.

"Rowena Ravenclaw…I wonder which item you left behind to wake you up."

"Would your daughter know about it?"

Loki nodded and left the room, going back to his room since he had an important meeting to attend soon at midnight.

Entering the Sefirah Castle, Loki waited to start the Tarot Club meeting and performed a quick divination whose result he was going to use to earn a little money.

'Damn! I didn't think my hunch would actually be true.' Loki thought as he looked at his topaz pendulum spinning clockwise after his divination.

'I guess Professor Snape really isn't paid well by 'Adam'...he must be funding his wild stories using the schools funds instead of paying the teachers.'

He then waited till it was midnight and then dragged the five people into the castle after creating an illusion for Mr. World.

"Greetings Mr. Error." Hermione said standing up and bowing to Loki, she then nodded towards the rest of the participants and sat back down in her seat.

"Mr. Devil, I have finished making your item. At what time would you like me to send you the item?" Mr. World spoke out first to initiate the meeting.

Mr. Devil looked at Mr. World and nodded after a little thought, "Five in the morning tomorrow will do it."

"I understand. My Lord may I ask you to oversee our transaction?" Mr. World asked after standing up with a polite bow towards Loki.

"You may." Loki nodded and that settled the matter.

After a moment of silence, Mr. World spoke up again, "I have new information about the movements of Voldemort and his followers, does anyone want to buy it from me?"

Loki immediately saw everyone tense up before Dominic took the lead to speak, "I hope you don't use that name lightly Mr. World."

"Ah. Do not fear a name when you are in the presence of the lord!" Mr. World said praising Loki who was just casually sitting in his chair.

Everyone looked at Loki and then *gulped* slowly before Dominic spoke again.

"How much would this information be Mr. World? And can you tell us what it is about so that we can judge if we want to buy it or not?"

Mr. World looked at everyone before saying, "I price it at fifty galleons since the information is a little secretive but would help a lot of people if they learn about it."

While everyone else was looking at Mr. World, Loki was looking at Snape. Trying to see if he'd take the bait.

And it seemed to be working since Snape's astral projection was tinged with deep pink, showing panic or excitement.

But everyone else had the same colour or something similar so it wasn't such a good indicator, for now.

Dominic and Crouch Jr. looked at each other as they judged one another and then almost simultaneously spoke over each other, "I would like to buy the information."

Mr. World looked at both of them and asked, "Are you sharing the price or do you want to pay full price and hear it individually? If you pay individually I will answer a few of your questions regarding the information too."

'No shame in earning more money…'

Dominic was the first to speak again, "I'll pay for it separately."

Mr. World looked at Mr. Devil to see if that was alright and when he nodded he turned towards Loki.

"Could you seclude us for a chat my lord?" Mr. World asked with a polite bow.

Loki nodded and waved his hand causing a black curtain to fall around them and separate them from the other people around the table.

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