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    Mongoose

    Neurochemical resistance to the venom of your enemy, reflex faster than the strike

    Mongoose artwork
    Card
    44 of 52
    Suit
    Fire
    Station
    the trial
    Kingdom
    Mammal
    Tradition
    Indian, African

    In Nature

    Mongooses have a mutation in their acetylcholine receptors that makes them highly resistant to cobra neurotoxin, and their reaction time is faster than a cobra's strike — they hunt what hunts.

    The Medicine

    The mongoose is not brave against the cobra — it is built for it. Its receptors are shaped so the venom cannot take hold; its reflexes are tuned faster than the strike. What kills nearly everything else is, for the mongoose, simply lunch. There is a venom in your life that you have carried an immunity to all along, perhaps without ever recognising it as a gift. Name it. And consider that some enemies appear in your story precisely because you were made to end them.

    The Number

    As card 44, the trial, the Mongoose carries meeting the venom, reflex faster than the strike.

    Shadow

    Assuming immunity to every poison, hunting snakes for identity.

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