There will be a small stall that will be stipulated for fortune telling inside my store.
I already let the jointed ball dolls send out flyers which contains information that 'one of the celestial dwellers will be doing fortune telling at Meira Alora store'.
This will surely attract more customer.
Plus, unlike most noble store, mine is like those commoners store as it sell inexpensive household appliances. Many commoners and ordinary civilians frequent my store, daring to enter my store.
My store sells clothes that adjust to temperature.
A light bulb, gas and its gas stove
I also copy the dry cleaning machine. The liquid tetrachloroethylene, the chloro-carbon are concentrated using ether. Many things can be easily substituted and form using ether.
All hail ether.
This way, water wastage to wash clothes will reduce. Because it can be easily formed using ether, I sell the liquid at a cheaper price as well as the mimic dry cleaning machine.
Our machine broke down a lot and in my previous life, our family is a bit of a cheapskate so instead of buying another one, we will call our neighbor who is a somewhat passable self made mechanic to fix the machine.
All the parts that were broken down which I saw was made clear in my memory.
The parts that I didn't see will be thought up on what it would be. There indeed is a lot of trial and error method going on.
I don't have to mimic in creating a fridge though.
As long as there is a tightly concealed box, we just have to inscribe sigil to make the inside of the box freezing.
The fridge I created here is an eco friendly one. Mind you.
Anyhow, coming to the present situation, the astrologer girl have got her first customer.
I accompanied her because I want to see a real life version fortune telling.
The astrologer girl put on black muslin and I as well put on a mask.
We sell our talent and not our body… Okay, that comes out wrong.
A card, dice and other astrology tools are placed neatly on the table.
"I lost my necklace a week ago, it was my favorite necklace. I really wish to find it again"
The first customer states her problem, fiddling with her dress.
The astrologer unlike when she was with me put on an ethereal front, her gaze faint.
"Very well" She replied obscurely.
The astrologer girl let her roll a dice as well as pick a card.
"Pluto, cancer as well as the third zodiac house"
She mumbles.
"Umm… Can I find it?" The astrologer girl first customer looks on eagerly. A bit hopeful…
"You can, the necklace probably is inside your family carriage, on the crack or somewhere dark towards the north. Though the outcome after finding the necklace will not be so great"
"Is something bad going to happen to me?"
The first customer nervously inquired; her face almost on the verge of crying.
Celestial dwellers mostly predict great misfortune of the country so the customer became frightened.
The astrologer girl faintly glances at her.
"There will be some disharmony with relatives, maybe your mother scolding you or a fight with sibling after finding the necklace"
The first customer heave a sigh of relief, it was better than having a tragedy befall on her. She gives her thanks and left immediately to look for the necklace.
For me though, I look incredulously at what just occur.
"How did you know all that with just some random dice and cards?"
"Cancer can represent home, the third zodiac can represent traffic and Pluto can represent negative things"
Even at such a clear concise explanation, I cannot understand how just by throwing random dice, choosing cards at random can give us our desired answer.
There is no magic perform, no fluctuation in ether, it was just so random. How can we be sure that the card that we select at random can give us the answer we seek?
"I still don't understand it, how can a card choose at random can be the answer? There is no fluctuation in ether nor some intangible force that guide the hand of that customer when she choose the card"
I asked my confusion immediately.
The astrologer girl re-arranges her cards.
"I don't know how to explain it either if that is the question. The star is a mysterious thing but one thing is the star never lies"
Guess I will never understand astrology in my life than.
Sigils and ether have more scientific ground than all this mysterious incomprehensible stuff like karma, prediction, card reading, natal charts…
It's better if I stick to being a good sorcerer than poke my nose on things I will never get.
For the whole day, I accompany her in doing her astrology.
She don't want to be left alone, not to mention, she always accompany me on my monster subjugation although that's her own business and I never ask her to accompany me, I still accompany her in her fortune telling.
In a way, it's me overseeing my store once in a while in person so everything's good.
The fortune telling will commence once every week.
Celestial dwellers are trusted individual and are famous in this empire so the astrologer girl attracted many customers even on the first day.
A solution called booking method will be used with thirty customers stipulated on fortune telling day.
"By the way, are you not going to tell your customer to gives a feedback?"
Most astrologist novel I read let their customer gave them a feedback.
"Why should I?"
The astrologer girl ask, confused.
"To see how accurate your prediction is"
"My prediction is accurate"
The astrologer girl states in a matter of fact tone.
"Ruru, my prediction is never wrong" Her gaze serious.
"The star never lies" She emphasized.
It seems, I hit a sensitive spot.
"I didn't mean your prediction is wrong, I was just saying because as prior to your earlier explanation that you give me. You said 'it can represent' and that does not mean 'it represent', the answer you gave is not definite. Like your first customer, you say the outcome of her finding a necklace will not be great. Like disharmony between family member. You are not clear on which one of the family member. If you get a feedback, you can know which specific one of the family member that will have a disharmony with that customer. Through feedback, you can also know which part you missed to interpret of the case studied. It will also help you developing personal style and proper way of interpreting"
I explained.
It was more of a marketing strategy. Feedback can help us understand the taste and need of customer and help us make improvement on our next production or marketing.
The astrologer girl kept her silence for a few second before giving me her thought on what I explain of my viewpoint.
"… Hmmm, it will indeed help me fortify my ability in predicting. I never thought of that as the outcome of my prediction will be true and assume knowing what the 'exact detail outcome' is of no matter. The ways you explain it indeed have some quality point I didn't bother to realise"
She beams "Ruru, you are amazing. Your star natal chart state that you have no talent in Celestial dwellings but it do show that you have a good karma with it"
You don't have to point out that I have no talent in astrology though.
Grumbling quietly, I just hum at her statement and do not speak further.
"Ruru, I want to ask you something"
I look at her, indicating her to ask.
"Why did we collect money?" She tilts her head "I can give fortune telling for free, I am not in need of money"
Since the fortune telling stall is already close, the astrologer girl and I removed our face cover.
I fix my monocle in hearing the astrologer girl question.
"Nothing in this world is free. When the customer pays you, it means they will not have a debt that the universe will somehow demand a payment in another way. I don't know exactly what karma is but maybe, you can take that as karma too. If you do things free for them, it may indeed look like a free deed to you but the law of universe is that 'Nothing is free'. The good deed karma will search its' own way to demand a payment from them to pay back to you. I just feel that it's better to cut karmic ties right then and there. The customer left knowing that they pay and don't owe you and you are also there knowing that you get paid and no one owe anything to you"
I don't know.
But that is my own personal interpretation of life.
I just don't like owing a debt or people owing me in most cases.
The stall that is stipulated for this girl is not free either. She will have to pay me 30% of her earning of fortune telling.
Plus, she attracts customer.
She earns money for me as well as customer traffic, I as well give her idea on how to improve her forecasting.
It's a win-win situation. I thought shamelessly.