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Card #c270IR // #c270Synthesis

Maybe it's just going to go on being winter until the Wheel turns and the Age ends.

— In our words · Source: The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)

[Use when]

Use when people escalate a stuck season into end-of-world talk.

[Why it matters]

Catastrophe gets narrated as cosmology when weather (or stress) will not break.

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