Rudolph Yerbler once thought that humans lives were filled with coincidences and mistakes, his own birth included. Then combining practical education, of torture applied to him, and theoretical, when he elected to study the history of the Crossroads, he came to the conclusion that his earlier understanding of randomness was utterly mistaken. Choices made through passion, and those in repose, those away from a bargain as well as those towards it, they could be many things, but not usually random.
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So in the past, he would have found this to be an ironic?coincidence,?but now he saw the greater pattern, even if the precise nature of it was hidden from him.?It was?that woman, Madeline Dubois, who wasn't even a witch but was strongly attuned to the element of earth with her psychic powers who made Rudolph consider the import of the forces driving him. Madeline was a strong sender and could, usually unintentionally and?sometimes at will, contribute to earthquakes, for what she saw as valid reasons, but were actually empty justifications. Rudolph has been cultivating their relationship, directly and otherwise, for years, and now, the final moment has come. She has made the plunge and was intending on making a deal, as was evident from the?urgency in her summoning.
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At that very precise moment when his earlier spell began to bloom and?his mentor returned. It was ironic, and once, Rudolph could have been flustered by the ill timed coincidence, but now he knew more, and chose to carefully address the situation instead, using the benefit of Crowley's position. "Sir, seems like the cloaking presence is now gone, the spell is ready to enact itself. But Sir, at the same time, I am being summoned to do my business for the Crossroads. So if you need my services further to?help you with the couple, I will need to be excused from the summoning, which only you can do as the King of the Crossroads. If you wish me to?leave you?to your affairs, you should now have the ruling power over the spell, otherwise, please, cancel the summoning using your position, because I am not able to resist it much longer myself..." Rudolph politely offered, accepting?either outcome with equanimity.
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Once it may have been harder for him to do. He would have been tempted to prove something, follow up on the bargain then return and complete the spell. but now that he could see the higher principles in action instead, it became easier for him to let fate decide for him, or rather?let Crowley decide as the purveyor of fate. the cunning demon likely saw more than him ahead anyway and would make a better decision than Rudolph would have , if left to his own devices.
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