"Are some more aggressive or less friendly than the others? Are some useful for finding the others?"

"Yeah."

"Are any of them more useful than you? Maybe Clow Reed should have spent his time on making a better Guardian."

"Stiles, can you get me some water?"

"Sure. Did you want anything, Kirby?"

He glares at Stiles and folds his arms.

He goes downstairs.

"I'll tell him to apologize later. I'm sorry about him."

Kero shrugs. "I could tell you about all cards...?"

"That would be nice."

So he starts by listing all fifty-two of them.

"Okay. Some of those seem more obvious than others. What does Change do? The Loop, the Return, the Twin?"

"The Change can change or exchange many things. It can turn things into other things, or switch people's minds. The Loop creates an area of distorted space from which you can't escape until you capture it. The Return lets you travel to the past to watch it. The Twin creates an identical copy of anything it touches."

"How are the Time and the Return different? Can Time not take you to the past? Does it take you into the future? And what about the Mirror?"

"Time can make time loop, but it can't send you into the past. It can make it stop or go faster or slower. The Mirror becomes a copy of someone, or it can reflect things back at their sources."

"Both Twin and Mirror could copy someone, then? Can other cards do that?"

"Twin creates a copy, Mirror becomes one. I don't think any other cards can do that."

"Okay. Uh, can you name them again while I write them down?"

He does.

Stiles returns with water.

"Did the bear do something useful while I was gone?"

He hands him the list.

"Okay. Watery, Windy, Earthy, Wood...you said there were six cards in charge of the others, right? What are they?"

"The four elements—Watery, Windy, Earthy, Firey—and the two aspects—Light and Dark."

"Can Windy help us find the other elements? If I meditate with her, will that make it easier?"

"Not really, the cards can't be found until they're active."