Nine of Wands · IX

✦You've taken some hits getting here, and you're still on your feet.

The guardedness makes sense; it's part of how you made it this far. The end is closer than it feels when you're this tired.

Hold the line for the last stretch, but spend your strength on the task, not on scanning for the next blow. Patch up what hurts while you keep going.

Treating every new person or request as if it were the thing that hurt you last time.