DELIAH

Nowhere can a secret keep
always secret, dark and deep,
half so well as in the past,
buried deep to last, to last.

Keep it in your own dark heart,
otherwise the rumors start.

After many years have buried
secrets over which you worried,
no confidant can then betray
all the words you didn't say.

Only you can then exhume
secrets safe within the tomb
of memory, of memory,
within the tomb of memory.
--Dean Koontz,
Book of Counted Sorrows

This card shows a darkly beautiful woman, garbed in the deep blue of the ocean. Her hair is long, black, and as glossy as a raven's wing. Her eyes are large and expressive, showing a small hint of sadness and desire in the same twinkling. She is looking to her left side, and holds a bouquet of withered blue roses.

Deliah is the Chatelaine of Lily's castle. She sees to her Queen's needs and wants, and if one comes to visit the Queen of Blood and Bone, this is the woman who receives visitors. She is, like the vast majority of Lily's servants, undead. It's said that she is Wraithe's progeny, but she doesn't share his same interests in war and magic.