My stack
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Knowledge
K · brook · stone · clay
2.What order means
Most groups of cards have no order. A world is a context: her cards sit side by side and none comes first. A family groups cards that are about the same thing. A deck is a selection, laid out for a front door.
A stack is the one composition that carries order. Card 1 comes before card 2, because the story needs it to. The order lives on the stack, not on the cards: each member keeps her own number, and could be dealt elsewhere tomorrow.
So when you see '2 of 3' at the top of a card, that is where she sits in this stack. Her number — the one in the corner — is who she is.