Even as Vera stared at the nine coins and the formation they formed, her confusion only grew—she never divined an outcome this ambiguous before.

Four of the nine coins were aligned with the life knot, four with the death knot, and one stayed at the center, where it could be aligned with both.

Naturally, the knots weren't dependent on each coin—but whether the coins, when dropped, could form a single solid alignment that could be interpreted as the death knot or the death knot.

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