#Reiki Healing Real

[aristoteliancomplacency]

^ yeah that part can make it really confusing bc like. As was mentioned in the video, some people stay closer to a lane of physiotherapy even in America (the podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie! Is currently doing episodes in chiropractic atm, would definitely recommend).

When we were in England a doctor recommended my partner go see a chiropractor for lower back pain and I was like NO ABSOLUTELY NOT WHAT FUCKING DOCTOR TOLD YOU THAT JFC. Bc I was way, way more familiar with the scene in America due to Being Online.

But the person my partner saw was actually basically just a physio + massage therapist specialising in back problems.

But! The UK very much does still have the quacks! And bc of the centralised nature of the NHS, and the higher* standards in terms of what the NHS funds (the NHS, for example, stopped funding Homeopathy whereas health insurances companies in other countries *glares at Germany* all still cover this shit despite it being bullshit), I think people in the UK have a slightly more good-faith assumption about medicine stuff. They’re not used to having to do as much research into whether the specialist your doctor just recommended was trained in bullshit ghost medicine.

But for the love of god no matter where you are never assume that a chiropractor is a medical expert. If you’re considering seeing someone ask them what they think they can help with, and ask them what they think the term ‘subluxation’ means bc it means something different for chiropractics than it does for actual doctors and if their answer to the first question is more than ‘hopefully your back pain’ and the answer to the second is not ‘an incomplete or partial dislocation of a joint or organ’ then fucking run.

* it’s a low bar and I’m not saying they leap over it, here. From a very brief search I think there is like, currently one place in the UK where the NHS “funds” a Reiki healer, and it’s actually because some bullshit reiki charity is funding the position. And I hate hate hate hate it bc like COME ON. The OBVIOUS goal here is to give the veneer of legitimacy WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THIS. But it’s still a lot better than the situation in, e.g. America and Germany.

[serenityreikiclinic]

Breakfast stories..

[crystallilytarot]

Choose a dino! Your life purpose.

Pile 1

You probably had some bad experiences but you are able to overcome it. And after that you will be even stronger, and smarter in a way too. It can be that you will help someone who will have the same struggles as you. Sometimes you can feel hopeless and like you don't know what to do. But you will be able to choose or make decisions more easily, and also you will learn how to stand up for yourself and have boundaries. One of your life lesson is to find balance and harmony within yourself. Be in peace with yourself and with the world. You are probably very creative and you should practice your creativity more, express yourself freely. If you want to have a family, it will definitely happen. I think children and animals are drown to you. If you don't want children, than you will have some significant pets in your life too. You will have a happy and abundant family life. Whatever you wish for, a partner, children, pets, a garden...

Pile 2

There will be some new beginnings in your life, and even if you wanted it, it still can be hard at first. But you have all the ability to succeed. You should have more faith in yourself. You are smart. You are good at manifestation, some of you can have some psychic abilities too. Maybe you are a wanderer, an explorer, but it's not a bad thing, one day you will see clearly what your real purpose is. You will probably move a few times, travel a lot. If you want to go to a foreign country, it will definitely happen. Some of you can have a long distance relationship too. You should embrace your romantic nature and focus more on your inner child too. Have fun, be free, the world needs sensitive, joyful people too! You can have some unique ideas, unique lifestyle, and it's beautiful. Some of you can be some kind of healers too, not neccesseraly doctors, maybe reiki or just you have a healing presence and it will help someone when they really need it.

Pile 3

There will be some hard time in your life, and at that time you won't see that in the end of the day, it's better that it happened that way. Even if it's a betrayal, lie, loss of someone, everything will teach you something. And nothing last forever, hard times come to an end too. There's always a new day, a new beginning. You should accept changes. You will take time for soul searching, seeking answers, and you will have some inner wisdom. You are probably an old soul. You can overcome anything eventually, just have self-control, focus on what you want. You need to be open, be positive, don't give up hope. There's some divine timing and fate working in your life, but looking back you will see that actually you were lucky. You have a soulmate in this life, and that meeting will be something unexpected probably. Be confident, you will be a succesful person.

[moonsunmermaid]

Heavenly guided messages ✨✨✨Pick a Pile

Disclaimer: Please remember, this is just a general reading from the collective, apply how it might resonate and take in consideration that tarot readings are not 100% real, you have the power to change your life anytime. Also please, regarding any kind of health issues this is no game, go to a doctor, I or spirit will never give you any advice regarding your health in this blog.

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Pile 1- Reiki Magic

In this moment and age, with all the things going on in this planet earth, heaven wants to assure you you are protected and safe. Angels and your spirit guides want you to know you can trust your intuition, they whisper the best advice possible and you can feel it if you connect to them and your heart.

If you have any practice that helps you connect to your guides, they want you to know they are with you all the time and encorauge to keep going with the practice. Sometimes even when we can't hear, feel or see, faith is imporant. Anyways, here's your message, keep trying connect with them.

Also there's a message from the moon, you can call her Selene, Diana, Artemis, Ix Chel, Khonsu, Hecate... or just the moon itself, however you like to call her, she whispers teachings that benefit you. I recomend you learning about the moon cycles and moon magic if you're into witchraft.

Pile 2- Glitter Wings

Energy sorrounds you and your aura, you are picking up on too much from others and you have to learn to let go of what is not yours. Your love for humanity is appreciated and venerated in heaven, yet you also have to love yourself. Angels don't want you depleted because of the efforts you put onto others!

Mother Kwan Yin, who always helps me , wants to tell you she's there for you too. Maybe this is too specific, but if you're suffering, you can call her and she will try help and allievate your pain.

Try be super soft with yourself and allow yourself to rest your mind as much as possible. Sometimes we need reset days when we don't talk with anyone, listen to anything and we just are. Maybe this is an extreme, and extremes are never ok, but try ligthen outside stimuli and kiet the mind. Do not force it, be kind to yourself, but try relax, please, also when I was reading the cards a huge amount of messages came to me, my ears started ringing and I almost had to stop the readings because it was too much stimuli for me. If this is how you are feeling in life, please, stop for a while and breathe!! (🙏🙏🙏 this is also a message from me )

Pile 3 - Angel Doves

For some reason, you got extra cards... also while I was shuffling the cards I felt a strong pain in my heart. I don't even know how to start, but I feel you, ok? I sense you are now healing from a very toxic situation, but you are determined to achive a goal or a dream, or maybe you only want to be free of this pain. One day at a time, progress takes you to the final goal, not perfection.

There's angels surrounding you to help, they are guiding you through the dark waters of uncertainity and want you to know comparing yourself to others is what makes it harder. They want you to remain calm and look inside, your light is never ending and your heart holds the magic to heal thousand million pains and more.

When we come to earth (or any other planet to be honest) we separate from source and we become individuals. Ego makes us believe we are not in comunication with source, society makes us believe we are not good, we are not God, they tell us God is a separate entity from us. Even in spiritual circles sometimes I heard we are nothing and we are bad compared to angels!!! But what angels want to remind you here and now is you are them. We all are Achangel Michael, we all are Kwan Yin, we all are God. Their energy is within us, and in this case: the energy of a thousand suns is within you, to heal or to achieve any goal. Allow the voice of angels get to you because you are them, you have the power, never foget this, please.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

To clarify,I don't believe in porn makes you evil and I don't believe in like fantasies are evil. I'm pulling this quote off Scarleteen "“If we aren’t both careful and creative we can get stuck in fantasies that don’t mature and politicize with us."" I'm also new to being about to vote, so I'm trying to be careful about what I consume and what stereotypes media perpetuate. Like I'm not moralizing about kink or anything, and my ask was how can I get aroused with media wo my kinks or wo media

hi anon, welcome back! I'm genuinely very glad to hear some follow up.

for anybody who doesn't stay vigorously up to date with all of my anons, this ask is a continuation of this one.

so I went and checked out the Scarleteen articles you mentioned in your first message, or at least I tried to. How to Approach Sexual Fantasies and Desire on Your Own Terms is here, and while I couldn't find anything with the exact title 50 Shades of Abuse, we do have 50 Shades of BS - How to Tell the Difference Between Kink and Abuse as well as 50 Shades Crappier: On Selling Abuse for Valentine's Day, both of which cover how the 50 Shades series isn't a great model of real, responsibly-practiced BDSM.

now, here's what I didn't see in any of these articles: an assertion that anybody needs to, as you've decided to do, avoid any work that depicts anything less than perfectly healthy sexual practices.

the closest we get to that is the quote by adrienne maree brown from How to Approach Sexual Fantasies, which you mention above. now, here's the thing: first of all, I actually disagree pretty substantially with brown's assertions that one's sexual fantasies need to "politicize." I know what my politics are; the fiction that I enjoy can't change that, because I don't have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair. I actually just talked about that earlier today in another ask.

(also, and this may be an unpopular opinion, but adrienne maree brown is kind of a dork who doesn't really say much of anything in Pleasure Activism that Audre Lorde didn't already say better and more succinctly, and I personally lost interest in Pleasure Activism pretty much the moment she casually dropped that she practices reiki healing because that's a pseudoscientific alternative medicine that doesn't do shit or fuck. but I digress.)

listen, I'm not trying to peer pressure or bully you into watching anything you don't want to watch. your porn consumption is up to you. but what you're doing here is absolutely moralizing, I think maybe because of an underlying assumption that media that involves sex is just, like, innately different than any other type of media, which is in itself an idea that stems from sex negativity!

I don't know, let's just try to play out a little thought exercise here. like, would you consider it reasonable if somebody told you that they've decided not to read or watch anything that depicts problematic behavior because they don't want to normalize it. like, first of all, they're never watching anything but Bluey again. except actually not even Bluey because I just remembered about Bluey in the genocide, which actually makes for a great illustration of how nonsensical and impossible it is to try to only engage with media that is 100% ideologically pure.

and again: that's fine! that's literally fine! it is 100% okay to watch or read or play things with morals that don't totally 100% align with yours. it's okay to enjoy them, even. it's a lot healthier than trying to avoid upsetting or incongruous things entirely, because that gives you the chance to actually think about it rather than trying to shut it out entirely! that article actually provides an entire list of questions you can run through with yourself to critically analyze the things you watch if you feel so inclined! that's a much better skill to practice than avoidance!

I get that when you're new to sex, as you said in the previous ask, this might seem daunting, but your brain isn't just a sponge that will uncritically soak up and adopt anything you expose it to. you very clearly have the ability to research, differentiate between fiction and real life, and form your own opinions! and it is absolutely fine if you want to just watch porn with your kinks!

like, listen, I see what the question is, and the easiest answer is just. do whatever gets you off.

[creature-wizard]

Energy Work On The Body: Hittin' The Right Spots For Tension Relief

While evidence does not suggest that energy healing alone is a reliable method of curing serious illnesses, there is still some evidence that energy healing techniques do provide some benefit. For example, Reiki applied by trained practitioners was found to promote relaxation and improve one's mood. And that's not nothing! Stress is hard on your mind and body.

Now, I will not be talking about chakras here, but I will instead offer an alternative approach. The main reason is that the concept of chakras that most of us are accustomed to is pretty bastardized from their origins. Another reason is that our bastardized concept of chakras isn't really a useful framework for what I'm about to talk about.

(If you want to learn more about how chakras have been appropriated and bastardized, scroll down to the end.)

Instead, I'm going to ask you to consider where your body tenses up under stress. This might be:

Your forehead

Your jaw

Your neck and shoulders

Your upper chest/heart region

Your upper back

Your abdominal area

Your hands

Your hips

Or maybe you tense up somewhere else! But in any case, try and observe where your body tenses up or where you start feeling pain when you're stressed out. (If you start feeling sick to your stomach when people talk about politics or religion, that's a stress response!)

Once you've figured this out, you want to get yourself relaxed. You can try any meditation technique you want, or you might try laying in bed with relaxing music or even a podcast or audiobook, whatever helps. As you lay there, visualize peaceful healing energies on your tension spot. You may not notice anything different immediately, but if you keep it up for several days you might find that it makes a difference.

Happy witchin'!

On the appropriation/bastardization of chakras:

CHAKRAS (are not what you think they are)

Chakras - What they really are

The real story on the Chakras

Witchcraft PSA: The Chakras & Cultural Appropriation

[booksandwitchery]

Demystifying Energy in Witchcraft

Throughout my life I've heard the word "energy" used, viewed and treated in the spiritual sphere as some ethereal, supernatural force. I even saw a TikTok the other day claiming that secular and atheist witches do not believe in energy work. I'm not sure where this treatment of the term "energy" started, but it likely has a lot to do with some more "woo" practices like Reiki and crystal healing.

I think we need to remove this stigma from the term "energy" in the Craft because 1) energy is an objectively real, observable material and 2) the benefits of working with and understanding energy shouldn't be packaged and branded as a medium for the "mystics only" club. This was something really meaningful that I took from Psychic Witch, where Mat Auryn explains energy in more scientifically observable terms.

Rather than defining energy as a mystical force, he explains that reality is, in fact, entirely composed of energy. The majority of us don't really think about reality this way, but anyone who has taken a physics class can tell you that this is a fact. Reality is energy--this is not a mystical perspective; it is a fact of the laws of physics. The scientific method has shown us that even things that appear solid, (diamonds, skeletons, my coffee mug, for example) are merely energies vibrating at a slower rate. Everything is made of particles perpetually in motion.

Still with me? Okay, so--Auryn breaks this down further by stating that the five senses are just various ways that we perceive energy. So in a sense, we are achieving a rudimentary form of energy work just by perceiving the world around us. Put in this context, many other animals are superior to humans with certain types of energy work (I wonder if this is part of why animals are so sacred to us witches). Dolphins and bats can legitimately use echolocation to experience sound waves as a form of sight. Indeed, we humans are far from the top of the totem pole when it comes to energy perception--it's almost as if humans were not created to rule over the rest of the earth (such a crazy concept).

Some examples of energy that our bodies cannot perceive include magnetic fields, radiation, wireless signals, and ultraviolet light.

What I'm trying to say is that Auryn's book really helped me to think of energy in terms of empirical reality, and reinforced my (somewhat) recent realization that magick is a valid, observably effective tool that can be used to achieve the changes we want.

[jadedbirch]

Last year, shortly before Halloween, I got a call from one of my best friends, let's call him L. His husband was back in the hospital, his metastatic cancer out of control again. We've been fighting this fight for 3 previous years. I've known his husband, let's call him R, for over 20 years, because that's how long they've been together. 15 years my senior, R had been in many ways the big brother and the gay uncle I've always needed in my life. The previous year, when R was feeling better and my wife and I were working from Rome, L&R came to stay with us for a week. R said it was his bucket list trip and we went balls to the wall to make it the most awesome experience for him, including private tours of Hadrian's Villa and horse drawn carriage rides through Old Town Rome.

By October 2023, this Roman trip in October 2022 felt like a distant past. How could things have deteriorated so quickly? But that's metastatic cancer for you. It turns on a dime and devours without mercy.

We spent Thanksgiving 2023 in and out of the hospital so that we could spend more time with R and provide support for L. Even realizing it was hopeless, R asked me to give him Reiki. I hoped that by sharing energy healing with him, I was also able to share my love in some small, tangible way. I felt so helpless. I had spent the prior 3 years pulling strings with all my scientific and medical connections to get him the best possible care. Not trusting in conventional medicine, I became a certified energy healer and a Reiki Master FOR HIM. And after so much fighting, was it really going to be for nothing?

A few days after Thanksgiving R was discharged, but it wasn't because he was better. It was because there was nothing else the doctors could do for him. Not that this is what was said - they still spoke of continuing his radiation treatments, even though it became increasingly obvious that there was no longer a way to get his cancer under control. It had overrun all of his major organs, including the lungs and the liver.

I was in the middle of a conference for work when L called me again. He said R was raving and paranoid and had told L to get out of their house. That was the day I stopped praying for God to save him and started praying for him to die as quickly as possible.

It happened the night of December 8, 12 days before L's 45th birthday. We rushed to their house the next day. It was the middle of Channukah and L, who is also Jewish, lit the menorah, and we talked of how in Jewish tradition dying on a Holy Day was a sign of righteousness. R, who was a recovering Catholic most of his life, was certainly one of the most Righteous people I had ever known. He gave off real Mother Gaia vibes, turning every arid patch of land into a blossoming garden. He nurtured us as he would have nurtured his flowers.

So, why am I writing about all this now? My wife and I just went back to Rome and it was like a punch in the face. Being flooded with all those memories of R&L there with us back in 2022, how happy we were, how hopeful things seemed. How quickly it was gone. Now, with the holidays sneaking up on me, that means the 1st anniversary of R's death, and how impossible it will be to experience Halloween, Thanksgiving, Channukah, and Christmas without thinking of how we spent those holidays last year and why. I know grief is non-linear, it folds back on itself like an ourobouros at times, and I suppose this is one of those times, when I feel the loss of him most keenly. And yet, there are times when he doesn't feel gone at all, when I can hear his voice in my head so clearly, making awful, inappropriate, and often morbid jokes, like a court jester laughing at his own execution. And I know he's still with me, an interdimensional being, free of the bounds of his mortal coil, to be wherever he wants to be, and so many places at the same time because time and space mean nothing to a being of light. When you think of death that way, it seems silly to cry, and yet... I think this is also how we heal: we let the light in by letting the tears out.

So, fall and winter 2024 are going to be tough, I see. I guess I can only hope that fall and winter 2025 feel a little bit better, less sharp, less like a punch in the face.*

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*This has been written and shared as a form of therapy journaling. While this is personal, you are welcome to share it, if you find it helpful, as long as you do so in a respectful manner.

[beasiannow]

As the new Reiki-like K-Beauty treatment from Korea, Called Hwayeom Cheoli or Flame Treatment, becomes more popular, it has led to many remarkable results and more than a few revelations.

Such as Susan Nelson, who went for the Full Flame Beauty Healing, as it's called.

After the last intense session in which the Hwayeom Cheoli flames blazed harmlessly extra bright, burning away everything that wasn't Korean, Susan spontaneously knew the Korean word 어이없다 (pronounced Eoieopda), which has no real English translation. The closest being “What the heck” or “I can’t believe it,” but felt in a uniquely Korean way.

The reason for the exclamation?

Susan realized she was now Nelgung Su-Ji and the whole world had just taken on a very inner Korean feel for her.

[ladywisteriatarot]

dear lady wisteria, HIIIII I know ur a tarot reader but do u have any advice on how to cleanse and support crown chakra. tank you ;3

hi :)

as a tarot reader, fortunately i do know things around the crown chakra, its necessary to me so i can do readings. even though youre not a tarot reader, regular people can do it too, its recommende

im not a full on professional at this so i will list what works for me

id recommend purchasing a journal if you don't already, it doesnt really matter but i like one that resonates with me as if it was me if i was a journal. makes it feel more real and absorbable with the affirmations. mine is brown leather with a gold lining, it was $7 so pretty inexpensive

practice mindfulness and meditation i recommend to do this outside so your body doesn't feel claustrophobic. your feet and hands should be uncovered and i recommend having either or both in grass or bodies of water. connecting with nature is a big deal for me. i also like to use crystals like selenite, white topaz, and clear quartz and balance them on my head during meditation

healing your own energy this is also known as reiki. if you cannot afford or do not feel like going to a reiki specialist, have your hands on top of your head, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out of your nose and mouth for the first three to five minutes and breathe softly for the rest of the session. this could go on for fifteen minutes

yoga. you can actually research this online that specifically deal with crown chakra

stay hydrated and eat cleanly.

happy healing!

[hazelence]

@emil162 May I present:

Cure Haunter is the forth cure in Yūrei Attack! 👻 Pretty Cure. She is an alter ego of Kaidan Reiki, a first year middle school student at the Oujia Boarding School in Gōsutotaun.

Cure Haunter is the ghost saving cure of compassion and wisdom and represents purple coloured mantra.

Her catchphrases are: "Putting the spook in your step! Cure Haunter!" and "Not a ghost of a chance!".

She is a bookworm, who loves to spend time learning new things and sharing her discoveries with others. Her favourite thing to learn about are ghosts and ghosts stories, and when she learns they're real she makes it her mission to learn all she can about them!

Cure Haunter's individual attack - Spirit Flare

When performing this attack Cure Haunter starts with the words "Time to step out of the shadows! Spirit Flare!" and shoots a ball of burning energy towards the enemy, it explodes on contact in the shape of a ghost. After purifying the soul she whispers "May you rest forever in our hearts".

Reiki: is a japanese form of energy healing.

Kaidan: taken from the japanese word for 'ghost story'.

[komal09]

[beesmygod]

Don’t know how much info/experience you have about this but is chiropractic medicine bullshit or real. I like listening to chiro vids for asmr but the youtube chiro people seem especially sketchy (they make youtube vids of women in yoga pants for clout of course they are lol)

total and absolute bullshit. if you want to scream, look up lawsuits and see how easy it is for one of these quacks to paralyze or otherwise maim you. the guy who invented chiropractic was completely batshit insane and believed in like. the healing power of magnets and was anti-vaccine back they first came out lol.

oh right. also he claimed that a ghost taught him how to do chiropractic.

As an active spiritist, D. D. Palmer said he "received chiropractic from the other world"[17] from a deceased medical physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.[18]

everyone locally hated him so much that when his son struck him with his car during a parade no one cared.

anyway i understand the asmr aspect of the vids tho lol. i used to look up all kinds of reiki healing bullshit bc they have v regular soothing breathing. im easy to impress i guess lol

[11salem-spirit11]

there’s a witch in Salem—who is so eccentric that to give any detail would be to doxx her so just trust me when I say—she is the most magical being I’ve ever met.

She gave me a reading on the spot, we had just met as she came into my workplace and she’s friends with everyone else that works there, anyway the reading was so accurate I cried (really embarrassing because I was at work). She then preformed some reiki energy healing (at least I assume it was reiki as that’s the only name I have for it) and she gave me some of her energy (which she says is pure angel energy). I seriously felt it vibrating through my bones it was crazy.

Anyway she told me I have dark energy—she said in my past life I was something non human like a fairy.

I want to explore all of this a lot more, especially the past life stuff as well as “dark energy” and that not necessarily being a bad thing.

She invited me to coffee with her when I’m ready (this DIVA had her own business cards made with just her name and her email). Last time I saw her was before Halloween and she wanted to meet in November. TLDR I never met with her because I’m terrified of embracing this part of my life. She really wanted to help me with my situation but idk if I’m in the place to accept her help just yet.

Anyways all that to say YES there are real witches in Salem. It attracts the best type of people

[wellsinvesting]

general information.

full name harry theodore wells

preffered name tad

age 33

date of birth august 5th

place of birth southampton new york

zodiac leo

gender cis male

pronouns he/him

nationality american

religion agnostic

orientation bisexual

personality.

positive traits energetic, active, capable, charismatic

negative traits self occupied, braggart, gossip,

likes karaoke, espressos, spirituality, animals

dislikes rudeness, bigotry, paying taxes, cheaters, red meat

hobbies surfing, traveling, yachting, fine dining, tennis, ultimate frisbee

moral alignment tbd.

headcanons.

tad's mom gave birth to him in a water birth at the family's beach home in the hamptons, right at the beginning of summer. this led to a long standing joke about tad yearning for the sea as spends every summer on the water.

tad is a level three reiki healer. he takes it very seriously.

doesn't eat red meat. he's pretty health conscious and tries to avoid processed food.

sometimes has his nails done because it makes him feel 'cunty'

his lucky underwear is a pair of hello kitty boxers

was a brown belt in akido before sada insisted he learn something more 'useful' with 'real world applicability' and began learning krav maga.

biography.

Tad and his siblings were second generation immigrants from the Philippines. Thanks to their parents and grandparents Tad, Becky, and Doug were damn well guaranteed an easy life. Grandpa had worked in corporate finance with a number of big name companies and dad had continued the work during his own lifetime. Their family name had become respectable within the circles they worked and there was clear intention for Tad and Doug to carry the family business on. Doug was several years older and had already been working in dad’s shadow by the time Tad was graduating college.

He still isn’t sure if it was greed or the need to prove himself to the family, but Tad made a very stupid choice that cost his family almost everything they’d worked for. A rival company had made Tad an offer--a damn good offer--and he made the mistake of thinking that just because he had a finance degree he knew anything about the world of money management. The reality was cutthroat, dangerous. When that much money was on the line.. People.. Companies.. Were willing to do just about anything to protect their investments.

Doug and dad were left dealing with the mess Tad had made and he was all but excommunicated from the family. He spent a few years doing nothing jobs and going nowhere before Sada finally wore him down and he accepted the offer to work for her. He figured he’d already lost the things that were most important to him, going to jail for white collar crime didn’t really scare him anymore.

The last thing he expected was for things to actually work out. He began making more money than he knew what to do with and his loyalty to Sada only deepened. She became the only family he had, some fucked up aunt who offered him blow as a reward for successful investments. Ria had been the jewel in his crown. He’d been in love with her from the moment they met and he was willing to spend all the money in the world to make her his.

Tad got stuck in the chaos of the winter supply runs and ended up on the far side of the city with a broken ankle. He was lucky enough to find a kind stranger who helped him survive the winter by taking him back to her farm. With his ankle now healed, Tad was finally able to make the journey back home and bring some interesting supplies thanks to the famer.