At a carnival by the water's edge, Sella the Seer passes her days reading fortunes for the strange souls who drift through the midway. She's learned that everyone is hungry for something in their cards—wealth, admiration, power, adoration—because she was hungry once too. Hungry enough to unshackle herself from a haunted childhood and chase the shimmering caravan lights that promised a haven for her talents, hungry enough to claw her way out of the canteen tents and into an act of her own, hungry enough to sell gossamer hopes to her starving clients with a hook at the end to always reel them back in. But one faithful visitor—a silent young woman with a scream of red hair—has her suddenly craving again. Now Sella wonders what it is they both want from their sessions and what they—what she—is willing to do to keep it.

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