Does magic not work in London?

Short answer: nothing in a card draw says magic stops working in London — and the one card I pulled points somewhere else entirely. Single draw, current guidance: Page of Swords, reversed.

Reversed Page of Swords is a mind that has turned sharp on the wrong target: the suspicion, the argument, the theory about *why* it doesn't work — all that mental energy, aimed at a claim nobody has actually pinned down. The card doesn't name a place as dead or alive. It names the shape of the doubt itself: a piece of talk that has grown legs and outrun its own source.

So, conditionally: if you can trace "it doesn't work in London" back to an actual person, a shop, a book, a conversation — then it was never about London, it was about how one practitioner does their thing. If you go looking and the trail goes cold, then it was never a claim about London at all, just talk doing what talk does.

Your move, before this week ends: ask the one person who first said it — "where did you hear that?" — and write down the actual answer you get back. Words, not a feeling about them. That returns something no card can hand you.

Would you like this drawn as a picture, or saved to your journal?