Asa Javedani:
"Do you want to talk?" Asa could occasionally be too focused on the business before her, but it was important to her that all were well on the ship.
Aisha was slowly walking between alcoves, bearing a ship's-candle and singing softly. She went first to the Messenger, crushing a slip of paper amd leaving it for the icon. Her voice grew as she approached the Dancer and she gave a spin before moving on to the Gambler. There, she poured from the Gambler's wine while moving, spilling a few drops for her risk. At the Deckhand, she took a cloth and washed the altar; at the Traveler her fingers added knots to the rope; at the blank wall she left twin stones of black and white. She finally stopped at the Lady of Tears, carefully placing the ship's candle and bowing her head for a long moment as her song came to an end.
She jumped when Asa spoke, looking around and then quickly standing and wiping her eyes.
"Oh, Asa! Uh, no, I'm...fine." the words tumbled out of her hesitantly.
She looked down for a minute, then back up. The older woman intimidated Aisha, with her composure and worldly-wise manner. A moment passed, Asa waiting and Aisha growing uncomfortable in the silence.
"Uh, well, I mean, actually yes. I just... I've never..."
Suddenly the words just blurted out.
"I'm not going insane! I'm not, I swear! I don't know what that was, and, and, I don't know what it means but I'm not insane, I can't be, and that wasn't a dream either, it just wasn't, it was too real, so, I mean, I know it's crazy, I do, but, it could be possible too, you know, it's not the first recorded case, and there's some pretty solid evidence behind it, when you look at it, though it's of course anecdotal, but still..."
Her hands, which had been wildly gesticulating, came to a stop, and her eyes came right up to meet Asa's with an intense, almost childlike determination. Her whole demeanour pleaded with and demanded Asa take her seriously.
"It could have been a vision."