[SE] fell from the pedestal right down the rabbit hole

Alys

"I would love to do a reading for him," Alys agreed, with only a touch of wickedness in her dark eyes. The cards never lied, after all, and she could learn a great deal about this man of Ru's by his reaction to the offer of a reading or by his reaction to the result. "It's settled, then," she said as she eyed the landscape shrewdly, comparing the wild tundra to her loose sketch and beginning to refine details. "I'll come visit you soon."

As for her own wants and needs, Alys was much more inclined to try to dance around them than to address them directly, and so it was that she listened to Ru's suggestions for travel with a sense of relief. If they talked about travel, they could stop talking about her loneliness and restlessness, and Ru could stop feeling badly for living her life - the very life that Alys had foreseen and gently nudged her towards. "Perhaps I will visit Torchline," she said. Then, remembering something, she smiled. "Do you know, when I first came to Halo, Tal was trying to open a courier location in Torchline, and I almost volunteered to work for him there. Perhaps I would have, if I hadn't fallen in love with Halo."

funny how it all works out in the end
you dance with the devil and you lose your head