Allen's gaze wanders from Rebecca's eyes down to her hands. Even if she isn't exactly a Vegas dealer, there's something skillful and honest in how she shuffles the deck and then lays the cards out again. Finally, when the show is done, he looks up at her face once more.
"I struggle to recall even one person known to me who wouldn't want to be privy to their future. The temptation is just too strong and has something to do, I believe, with how short our lives are. We want to make the most of them" Doubly so for the Uratha. Werewolves might be faster, stronger and more resilient than just about any other creature, but their duties grant them lifespans shorter than their biology would suggest. Add their low numbers and the weight of policing the borders between worlds, and you start to see why they'd want to know.
Well, that's a bit too much philosophizing for a simple question, isn't it?
"So it was with me - I was morbidly curious. And I've always had something of an infatuation with the occult, how it touches our daily lives" And oh, it does, at all times "In that, I suppose we're similar. Still, I am a theoretician, and my kind is drawn to practitioners like you in search for the supernatural in the flesh, rather than just books. Figuring if any of these old wives' tales did turn out to be true, here is a good place to experience them"