Seventy-Eight Detour
History never runs straight. It detours.
I am Sloane Sterling, historian and detective, suddenly ripped from my time and thrown into centuries I never lived. I thought I could bend history toward equality, toward peace, but the world I step into is cruel, full of lies, ambition, and the weight of choices that punish the heart.
As I fight, I meet people who shape me, and one who comforts me in ways I cannot name, Dannyal. In a world where attachment is dangerous, his presence is both a shield and a temptation. Yet love is not free from fate.
The true path, I learn, is hidden in seventy-eight fragments of power, held by those whose hearts mirror the cards they possess. Some will guide me. Some will deceive. Each fragment shapes me, strengthens me, body and soul but none comes without cost.
To claim them is to survive. To survive is to risk losing everything, including myself. And when the final fragment awaits, the card that could return me to my time, I may find that the greatest battle is not against the world, but against what I have become, and what I love.
Because some tarots do not bless.
They possess.
History bends. And so will I.
But the deeper I go, the harder it becomes to tell whether I am changing history...or being rewritten by it.