"We were, all but my sibling Sinregado, who is Temperance, the fourteenth among us. Time and the hazards of the game have reduced the twenty who started to seventeen extant."

A slight pause, then, "I can offer you certain gifts. To compel truth, to embolden the righteous or make sinners feel their guilt, to slow your perception of time so that you have the leisure to decide or react with clarity."