“As long as you can read and avoid touching me in thoseespecially distractingplaces, I should be able to handle it.”
He grinned. “I’ll try to behave myself. Okay, so the first heading says, ‘How do you see the people around you?’ You don’t really want to hear that part, do you?”
“Of course I do! I’m around you, and I’d like to know how you see me.”
He laughed. “I think it’s more general than that, but here goes. ‘People around you represent opportunity. They are your chance to achieve and show off a bit. Sometimes you see what they have and yearn for that.
“‘You have an unopened bag of tricks yet. There are things these people still have not seen about you. Things you still have to show them. There is some need to prove yourself to these people.’”
“Hmmm…” Roz interjected. “I wonder what that could be?”
“Yeah, well…who knows? Should I continue?”
“Please.”
Konrad cleared his throat. “Okay, just a little left of that category. It says, ‘The ships in the harbor represent coming chances with three people. You are focused on one of them, and it is possibly causing you to be a bit off your game. The sandals in the sand indicate that some part of you is ready to put down roots.’”
Roz raised her eyebrows as if asking a question, but didn’t verbalize it.
“Here, I’ll show you the picture of the card, so you can see the ship and sandals.” He turned the screen toward her.
She nodded at it. “Pretty. It kind of looks like a guy is playing limbo on the beach. Maybe it’s the Club Med card.”
He chuckled, but more to cover his disappointment. Okay, so it didn’t seem like she was ready to talk about commitment. He’d have to wait for the right moment. Things like that shouldn’t be rushed.
He turned the screen back to where he could read it and scrolled down. “The next category is ‘How are you seen by the people around you?’ Ha, now it’s my turn.”And my chance to have a little fun.
“Hey, it may not refer to howIsee you.”
“You doubt everyone sees me as gorgeous and great in bed?”
Roz rolled her eyes.
He leaned over and kissed her. When he returned to the screen, he feigned surprise and said, “Hey, how about that? It says, ‘You’re viewed by others as handsome and virile.’”
“It does not.”
He grinned, sheepishly. “You saw through that, huh?”
“A little bit. Now go on. Read; I’m enjoying this.”
“Okay. ‘The Queen of swords is a very mentally focused person. You are seen as driven. Sometimes your sarcasm comes out wrong.’ Hey! I’m not sarcastic.”
Roz shrugged. “This is how others see you. Maybe you’re not aware of it.”
“Humph. I suppose.” He took a deep breath and continued. “‘Those around you may see you as a bit of a loner as well, because where you live is so different from where they live, even if it’s on the same street.’”
“Now that I can believe,” Roz said.
“What do you mean…because our building’s full of weirdoes?”
“Ah ha. That’s the sarcasm that doesn’t come out right!Ilive in this building, you weirdo.”
“Sorry. Hey, do you want to see the card? It’s a woman on an ice-covered cliff holding a sword, and a couple of white eagles soaring around the snowcapped mountains.”
“I’ll take your word for it. Go ahead. Keep reading.”
“‘Folks see you as someone with many responsibilities and projects. You seem to have your eye on the prize always. There is one very close to you who watches and learns from you.’”
