At Miss Audrey's home, both Jenkins and the cat poked their heads out of curiosity to look at the purple spar.
It looked quite handsome, with a luxurious sheen in the gaslight. The crystal is properly preserved in a brand-new wooden box. After the spar is produced, it has undergone complicated processes such as degaussing, blessing, enchanting, etc., and it is not even allowed to touch it directly with hands.
While preparing the ceremony with her teacher, Miss Audrey whispered to Jenkins the precautions for pendulum divination, but in fact Jenkins was more curious about the production process of this beautiful spar.
"I don't know if Hathaway or Britney like this kind of thing... Britney should forget it, she'd better not touch these weird items."
Pendulum divination is simpler than card divination that requires frequent shuffling and cutting of cards. Jenkins thought that Miss Audrey would preside over the ceremony, but Jenkins was asked to participate in the key steps. But she never expected that after she and Miss Broniance drew the complicated pendulum watch with ceremonial chalk on the surface of the round table, they pushed the box containing the pendulum to him.
The pendulum watch was completely drawn with blue ceremonial chalk, taking up most of the area of the round table, leaving only a small outermost edge uncovered. The interior of the perfectly circular pendulum watch is divided into different areas by straight lines, curved lines like water ripples, and various symbols, some of which even Jenkins cannot understand.
But this does not prevent him from appreciating the mysterious beauty of this pendulum watch, it is indeed very beautiful.
"Let me come? But I haven't even gotten started with the simplest inspiration divination."
The so-called inspiration divination is to close your eyes to feel the future. According to Jenkins, it is actually guessing with your eyes closed, without any additional rituals or item assistance.
"That's why you have to try more, otherwise your divination will never improve."
Miss Audrey half-forced Jenkins to lift up the thread on which the pendulum was hanging, and then the three of them sat at the round table at an angle of 120 degrees. The chocolate was of course on Jenkins' lap, but it was quite dishonest. It stood up straight and grabbed the edge of the table with its front paws, stretching out its cat head to look at the situation on the table.
"Now relax and breathe slowly."
Miss Audrey snapped her fingers, and the gas lamp in the living room went out immediately. Miss Broniones waved her hand towards the window, and the curtains slammed to shut out the morning light and dense fog.
Jenkins didn't get enough sleep last night, so he's a little groggy now. He looked at the dark surroundings and felt that the air in the room had become colder.
"Raise the pendulum and pay attention to the technique I just said. The movement should be slow, as slow as possible. Breakfast is estimated to take 20 minutes to be ready, and we have a lot of time."
Miss Audrey spread her palms as she spoke, and [Vientiane Impermanence Card-Arsonist] appeared, and then seven or eight burning flames appeared around the edge of the round table, turning the faces of three people and one cat into red .
"Try to slow down, try to slow down..."
Jenkins said in his heart, stretching his right hand forward, letting the pendulum hang in the center of the pendulum watch.
He tried his best to relax his mind, meditating on the impermanent fate according to Miss Audrey's guidance just now. It's not easy, because no one knows what fate looks like.
The preparations before the pendulum divination were not complicated. After Miss Audrey indicated that Jenkins could start, he asked the first question according to the prompt on the piece of paper at hand:
"What gender is my spouse?"
There is no need for divination to know this question. If the future dares to joke with Jenkins, then he swears that he will explode the future. But pendulum divination has always started with simple questions, and Jenkins had to ask such questions.
As he asked, he let the spirit in his body slowly flow to his fingertips. As soon as he finished speaking, Jenkins' hand didn't move at all, but the pendulum started to rotate automatically.
The two women and the cat subconsciously stretched out their heads to look at the table. The cat's eyes seemed to be glowing, while the pendulum pointed to the ancient text at 3 o'clock on Jenkins without stopping.
Jenkins knew it. This character represents the meaning of [feminine], [negative], [female] lamp. In short, this shows that the first divination was very successful.
But this does not mean that he has started divination, because any gifted person injects spirit into the pendulum, and it will swing. The real fortuneteller can make the direction of the swing indicate the omen of the future, and the pendulum in the hands of the false fortuneteller can point out what depends entirely on God's will.
"Then start the second time..."
No one spoke, Jenkins thought, because unnecessary sounds and movements would destroy the spirituality of the divination field.
"Is my love going well?"
This is a very broad question, and putting this second in the list is to determine if Jenkins' divination actually works. In the hands of a skilled fortune-teller like Miss Audrey or Miss Broniance, such a broad question could point to a fairly precise answer, while a failed fortune-telling would point to a completely irrelevant answer.
As soon as Jenkins finished speaking, the pendulum in his hand spun automatically again. The purple crystal seemed to flicker for a moment, but only the cat observed this scene.
This time the pendulum rotated very fast. Jenkins thought that it would stop precisely above a certain symbol or rune on the pendulum table as before, but he did not expect that after it rotated 360 degrees, it would go straight Pointed me in the direction of Jenkins.
The cat's eyes were wider than usual, looking forward to what the pendulum would point to. But it didn't point at anything, it just returned to its natural drooping state after completing a 300-degree rotation.
"I knew it was a failure."
Jenkins complained a little in his heart, and then under the gesture of Miss Audrey's eyes, he started the third attempt that was destined to be unsuccessful:
"When will I get married?"
This is a very realistic question, and it is very directional, and the answer you want to get is just a number. The pendulum divination inherited from the school of Miss Audrey and Miss Broniones usually performs three divinations in each ceremony. The first time asks the simplest question, so that the fortune-teller can adjust his state and grasp the inspiration; the second time he asks broad questions, It is used to confirm the status of the fortune-teller; the third time is the most critical question, and the answer to this question usually depends on the result of the second time to infer whether it is effective.
And now it's obvious that whatever the results show the third time around, it's unlikely to be effective.
PS: For the second question, the meaning of rotating 360 degrees is: I want them all. (laugh)