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Fortune telling

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The Forecaster "Hello, ma'am. I hope you're doing fine today."
Rhodane "Where are your parents, kid? Are you here all alone?"
The Forecaster "I don't have a mama or papa anymore. I see them sometimes when I take off my medicine, but they can't stay. I'm pretty used to being on my own."
Rhodane "I like to see what you have for sale."
The Forecaster "Oh, I don't sell things, ma'am. I sell thoughts."
Rhodane "You sell *thoughts*?"
The Forecaster "I can take off my medicine and do some thinking. People say it's real interesting. I don't know, because I never hear it. Some people say that it's a gift. Other people say that it's the kind of thinking anyone could do if they watched more than they talked. I don't know which is true. I see a lot, I think a lot. There's a lot to hear though the 188, too, that maybe accounts for the thinking."
Rhodane "What is your medicine and how do you take it off?"
The Forecaster "The thing on my head is headache medicine. It works real good, except I can't think when it's on. Really think, I mean."
Rhodane "You don't sell that junk behind you?"
The Forecaster "That's not junk. That's other people's thoughts. People had to think to make them, and the thoughts got stuck inside. I need other people's thoughts to fill my head when I'm not thinking myself. Otherwise it's... kind of empty."
Rhodane "I might be interested in buying your "headache medicine." How much?"
The Forecaster "Thinking hurts you, too? Aw, I wish I could let you have the one on my head but I can't. It hurts real bad when I don't wear it."
Rhodane "I'll pay 100 caps to hear your thoughts."
The Forecaster "Great! What do you want me to think about? I can think about You, Here... or Everywhere. What do you want?"
Rhodane "Do your thinking about me."
The Forecaster "Okay. Let me take off my medicine..."
The kid removes the psychic nullifier from his head.
The Forecaster "Your face does the thinking - two to the skull, yet one gets up. Odds are against you... but they're just numbers after the two-to-one. You're playing the hand you've been dealt, but you don't let it rest, you shuffle and stack, and a gamble... a gamble that may pay off? But how? Forecast: Rapidly changing conditions."
Rhodane "How do you know these things?"
The Forecaster "Oh, I don't know anything, ma'am. I just think it, and then I don't."
Rhodane "Do your thinking about Here."
The Forecaster "Local, local, the here and now... little of interest.. things to buy, false hopes, and regrets watered down, washed down in dirty glasses. With regret comes a girl... smiling sad, brown robe, name Veronica, half here. Wraps her and her heart up like a pack, in the pack, a key, some say. Forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of friendship. Ouch. Thinking small only hurts a little, but it's a sharp pain."
Rhodane "Do your thinking about Everywhere."
The Forecaster "Bull and Bear over the Dam, at each other's throats... but a light from Vegas? Ball spinning on the wheel, more than two at the table. Placing bets. All lose in different ways. A dam of corpses, towns of corpses, scattered across the sand. But whose in what shares? Even the dealer doesn't know. Forecast: A rain of blood will flood the desert and not purify it. Bleh. Thinking about Everywhere always makes me feel a little sick..."
With that said the kid puts the nullifier back on his head.
The Forecaster "A lot of thinking - most of it in your face, it's almost shouting at me. Sorry if I said anything weird."
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