First Love

Cards: 3 of Clubs, 

The first of my lovers was a Falconer of the Eight Winds. 

He was quiet and handsome with dark features and a strong jaw.

Card: Queen of Diamonds 

He gave me a bundle of fennel. I found it on my pillow, wrapped in paper and rope, sealed with a wax crest. 

Card: 10 of Clubs

I was pleased beyond measure and I bade him visit me each night he was in my village. He stayed for 5 months then departed in silence.

Second Love

Card: 4 of Spades

The second of my lovers was a Magister of the Granite Isles. She had come to the mainland for diplomacy.

Card: 9 of Hearts

She whispered to me that she could not love me long for she loved her duty more than any person.

Card: 8 of Hearts

This saddened me greatly, and I bade her remember me always and I placed a pin with anise on the inside of her coat as she left.

Third Love

Card: 2 of Spades

My third lover was a groom from the Granite Isles, he was young and held mischief in his eyes.

**note: groom here means someone who tends to horses** 

Card: 10 of Spades

He sang to me of the horses, the sea, and the valleys of the isles. I watched him play on my old lyre, backlit by the fireplace. 

Card: Queen of Hearts 

This saddened me greatly, and I bade him sing to me of love, sing of adventure, and sing of joy, but not of the isles,  for I knew he would return to them come morne. 

Last Love

Card: Ace of Spades

My last lover was a thane of the Granite Isles. I was old and so were they. We knew this was the last chance we had of unity.

** a thane is an Anglo-Saxon Lord** 

Card: Jack of Diamonds

They showed to me the Isles at long last. I had not left my home, the South facing cottage, in decades but for them I would leave. 

Card: King of Diamonds 

I was content enough and I bade them I would return once a year for the rest of ours. 

I light this candle for

Card: 10 of Hearts

I light this candle for my third love. The islands were more beautiful than what he summoned from my lyre. He might have returned if I had not bade him forget them for me.