Hellos, Goodbyes, Ice Blue Eyes

A Fortune Teller’s Tales: Episode 1

Wanugee
6 min readAug 20, 2021
“Hellos, Goodbyes, Ice Blue Eyes” Original Digital Art by Wanugee

She was looking at me, in full work uniform. The pale blue of her hair cap was much lighter than her blue scrubs, but matched her ice blue eyes. Was that their true color, or the result of transmitting her feelings through them to me? She urgently wanted a reading of her future, Stat! She was on her morning break, at a medical facility, in her scrubs and hair cap, using an iPhone. She had removed her blue surgical mask.

I noticed she had enough time to put on some lipstick, and pull some gold locks out from under her cap. Maybe anxious about her reading, she needed something to calm herself down? Like wanting to make a good impression on a blind date? Beneath that facade, her nervous energy ran rampant between her heart and head. Maybe this was a small, but familiar gesture to herself, of reassurance.

We were doing her fortune reading via an internet video app. I was at home, she was at work. The center symbol for her reading, displayed on a Mah Jong tile that I use for fortune telling the energy flowing in the future, was the “House” tile. This tile, in this context, implies that there may be a change in her living situation, the walls around her were shifting, the energy where she spends time was changing. This was the theme for the next 6 months.

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