From Roza’s deck
Five of Swords
hollow victory · conflict · winning at cost
Swords collected while the defeated walk away — a win that cost more than it paid.
Reversed, it falls differently: Old battlefields released; making peace after a bitter round.
For the heart: Being right defeated being close; count what the victory bought.
For bread and coin: Cutthroat dynamics; win only wars worth their casualties.
For the road ahead: Ask of every battle: what is left standing after I win?
A card on a page is a word, child. A card your own hand draws is a sentence. There is a difference.
Every dawn one card waits face-down on my table — come and turn yours. Or bring the cards a full question: the table is there.