She handled the former and the maids handled the latter. But when she was done, her curiosity got the better of her. Laughter and occasional raised voices, like kids clamoring to be next for a treat, kept drifting up from the first floor. Following the sound to the lower parlor, she discovered Mikhael had indeed found a way to settle her staff, get them in the right mind-set.With tarot cards.Somehow he’d found out that Min did readings. In the past, they’d occasionally whiled away a rainy afternoon with the activity, so once he had them pointed in the right direction, it seemed several of them had volunteered to have their fortunes read. Min’s interpretations were of course being subjected to the peanut gallery formed by the rest of them, the source of laughter and raised voices.It wasn’t just the choice of activity that amazed her. As she stood in the parlor doorway, she realized he’d taken to heart what she’d said about them being children in many ways. He’d apparently moderated his behavior accordingly, because instead of maintaining a cautious distance from him, they were clustered around him like kids around a mall Santa Claus.
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