Ten of Swords
When I woke, I found I had already been made into a butterfly specimen by the witch. Ten long pins nailed my body down, trying to fix me forever on the far side of light. I withered little by little in the night, until a sliver of dawn arrived and gradually dried my soaked, tattered wings. Blood dripping from my wounds was nourished by sunlight and became a glowing flower. The instant I touched it, an unprecedented energy surged up from my heart—no, I cannot stop here!
— Lux’s Diary, Day 60 · Flight from the Husk
UPRIGHT
complete ending, failure, sorrow and despair, the end of an old way of thinking, severe trauma, restriction
REVERSED
release, pain eased, optimism, breaking the cocoon and becoming a butterfly, learning from failure, seeking solutions, breaking the stagnant state, the beginning of transformation