Maybe she interprets their question wrong--because she doesn't seem to think it was a strange thing to say at all. Rather, she smiles kindly and gestures to the cards in front of her.

"Everything has a future, but fortunes can tell the past and present, too."

She has probably done this a few hundred times, by the way she subtly reclines in her chair and resumes the roll of an actor playing a particular part. She never stops shuffling the remainder of the cards, though.

Robin stands next to Phalanx, saying nothing, but squeezing his fingers into a fist at his side.