Five of Diamonds

5 of Diamonds Happiness and success. A change for the better. A birth, or good news for a child. A good time to start new projects.- Fortune Telling Playing Cards

The van was painted brilliant yellow. An enamel finish specially mixed with properties of chemistry and alchemy, the former food truck shone with its own glow of sunshine and was home to a Traveller and storyteller. Stencils of the five of diamonds playing card danced across the hood and sides of the twenty foot step van. It was a gift, the van that is, for the storyteller's seventieth birthday. In all there were fourteen cards.

"Only one of them leads to the treasure," the welder and creator confided when he placed the keys to the ignition and gas tank in the storyteller's palm. The keys dangled from an old fishing lure, his lucky lure sans the sharp barbed hook. He was talking about the lay of the cards and the puzzle all but invisible to the unseasoned.

"You are the teller of old stories, stories that the young will understand before the Old Cousins. One of these cards will turn up a particularly luminous child. Pay close attention to any children you meet along the way." That would not be difficult as the new owner of the van was keen on children with especially soft spots for children that could hear in color.

The Five of Diamonds Van as it became known withstood decades of wear, nearly 70,000 miles of road travel still vibrant as Summer Solstice noon and only once in all those years did a young child, a little girl, listen with ears that could hear in color.


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