Chiromancy

[Crepuscule]

Yep. I missed it. I associated S2 L8 with scars and membranes related to birth. Why Carved from Venus to the moon, are these palm lines? If so wouldn't the cuts be on the wrist, not the palm?

They're adjacent to the area cut. It's really intended to indicate the carving motion:

[Image: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-frgFXSu32ps/T9...y-hand.jpg]

Yep, not perfect, but close enough. It also holds onto the idea of reading palms and fortunes. In the end, the narrator is left knowing more about the future than he had bargained for.

Possibly.