Well, the two Fertility blessings are no surprise. Neither is Istevi's Surprise blessing, or Beauty - it's even in his name. Lia can see how all of the blessings fit each person, actually... It's pretty uncanny. 

"You mentioned that we can do other things with the blessing coins, right?" She asks Farienne once she's done offering her guesses. "Some kind of limited divination?"

Farienne nods. "You can draw a blessing from a bowl like this one, and the blessing will representative of something from your near future. I drew three surprises before coming here, to give you context. It's the broad strokes, but still useful."

"And it can only be done with these forty specific blessings? What if some are missing?"

"Forty three, eight for each of the five elements, three additional ones. There is a country in my world with a slightly different set, but we don't know if it was a cultural drift due to isolation, or something weirder. No one managed to do on purpose afterwards. The draw picks the best blessing from the set you have, the most correctly informative, so an incomplete set is less informative, but still informative. And also why we usually do three full sets per bowl."

"Okay... I am going to be blunt, how can you be sure this is not just superstition like how in our world people try to predict the future through oysters."

Farienne giggles. "Well, I don't know if that works in your world. But in mine when a blessed person try to draw for a non-blessed the coins will do weird things, like appearing in alphabetic order, or show the drawer's own birth blessings, or draw all the ghost coins in the bowl first. Ah, ghost coins are what happens when the coin is so worn that you can't tell what it originally meant, unless you're me. They sort of represent... the opposite of the blessing? If I had draw a ghost joy to someone I would expect them to be very miserable and sad."

"Huh," she will definitely check on that, it's not like this is any less plausible than the chunk of crystal inside her arm right now and far less painful. "Could you erase a coin and make it into a ghost on purpose? And put only a specific kind of ghost coin per bowl and thus know what the ghost coin was by elimination?"

"Oh, yes that would work. You're brilliant like your daughter."

Mura abruptly stands up and leaves.

Awkward. 

Does this mean the Istevi in Farienne's world did the same thing as the one in this world? She's not tactless enough to ask.

...Is Zofin okay?

She looks more sorry for Mura than for herself.

"Maybe, you four... three? Might want to talk to each other privately."

"Four. I mean, I do want to have the conversation that we all know we want to have. Sorry, Lia and Isteri."

"It's fine. We can test the divination while you do that." 

"Thank you."

"Thank you."

Isteri smiles and takes Lia by the arm to a short walk away.

Once they are far enough. She lets out a sigh. "Gah! I can't believe that we found a source of multiple kinds of magic and interpersonal relationships are making it complicated."

"Seems to be a bit of a theme," she agrees. "I wonder if talking to an alternate of one of their children is going to help or make things worse?"

She shakes her head, "Should we go upstairs and see if Lyra and Brandon are awake? Trying to draw for someone unblessed sounds like the simplest way to test if it actually works." 

"Either the girl got her mother's inability to lie, or she is even better than her father at putting a face and manipulating people. So..." Shrug. "I will take anything that isn't this soap opera drama." Upstairs they go.

The twins answer the door this time and, after getting the overview from the two Amentans, agree to the experiment. They are refreshingly free of soap opera drama. 

Lia sets up the bowl of blessings which they'd brought from downstairs, "How do we do this?" She wonders, shifting through the paper blessings with one hand. "Just... think of a question and draw?" What happens if she tries to draw with Brandon's immediate future in mind? 

"I think it always gets your immediate future, but you can make up your mind about what you are going to do with the information and it can be somewhat directed by that?"

"Hm... Alright." She tries just drawing for Brandon, no question in mind. 

Beauty, Beauty, Beauty. Change, Change, Change. Charm, Charm, Charm....

She snorts, once she realizes what's happening, and keeps going until she reaches the third Determination. 

"Alphabetical," she reports to Isteri. "Definitely not a natural result. Try it?" She offers her the bowl.