Tarot

The shop was like a thousand others. It looked as though everything was made of wood or crystal, smelled of incense and sounded like waves breaking on a beach. The tarot reader sat at the back behind a small folding table covered in green baize. "Have you come for a reading?"
Jools smiled. Mr Higgs had suggested that Jools should pay a visit the the tarot reader and here he was. "Why not?"

Jools sat at the table opposite the reader. He placed a twenty, carefully, on the green, baize surface. The tarot reader shuffled his cards and then turned them over, one at a time. "You will soon be going on a journey with some news." Jools nodded. He would be going back to see Mr Higgs as soon as he had finished here. The tarot reader looked up from the cards "You don't believe in this, do you?" Jools shook his head in agreement. "But you will..." Jools wasn't so sure. Mr Higgs hadn't been very happy with his reading and he actually believed in this mumbo-jumbo. As he turned over more cards, the reader stopped talking but kept looking up at Jools.

As Jools left the shop, he thought that the reader had been right. Maybe there was something in it after all. He was pretty sure that the tarot reader had known what was coming before... well, before.

Jools checked that he had picked up his twenty and headed back to see Mr Higgs with his news.