120- Predictions and precognition
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I run to the door and swing it open just in time for Shaun to nearly hit me in the face, his fist raised to
knock. He stumbles backwards and lowers his arm. Amber is standing beside him looking amused. Her
unnaturally red hair is a little windblown and the ends just brush her shoulders. She’s thin and with her
bright blue eyes she looks a lot like a little porcin doll. Eyes are anothermon misconception that
people have about Oracles. Just because one two of them were blind and became famous for getting
by using their ‘other sight‘ forever ago, now people seem to assume that they’re all blind. I remember
Amber lecturing someone about it once when they insisted that she couldn’t be an Oracle because her
eyes were functional. She then continued to tell meter that just because some fanatics think that they
have to blind themselves to ‘unlock their potential‘ that doesn’t mean she wants to destroy
one of her senses.
“Sorry Miss Gale!” He says, looking horrified. Amber flicks her hair behind her ear andughs.
“See, I told you that you didn’t need to knock. You should really listen to me in the future. It’ll save you
trouble. Now, in we go.” Amber invites herself in, patting me on the arm as she passes. Shaun follows,
carrying a couple ofrge brown paper bags which he takes straight to the kitchen. I have to fight not to
grin at the red thread that I can see floating between the two of them. I wonder if Amber knows… I
mean, she sees a lot, but not everything, so it’s hard to say. While Amber shares a lot more of what she
sees than I do, I know she still holds a lot back. It might be why I always liked her. Aside from her being
a generally nice person and a not–awful supervisor at work, I feel almost a sense of camaraderie with
her. We might
see different things, but we both know more about the future than the average person and have to
choose what to do with that information on a regr basis. She might be the only person who knows
about my magic and has never tried to ask about her own threads. Although until today, I’ve never seen
her with any.
We all head into the kitchen and Amber begins making herself at home, unpacking the brow bag and
getting tes out of the cupboards. (She must have seen something because she finds everything far
too easily.)
“I brought lunch from Borderline. I figured since they called me in to work on my day off to sort out
some stupid drama that feeding us was the least they could do.” Sheys out four servings. One for
each of us, plus Shaun and Megan I guess.
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“Awesome, thanks. I’ll call Megan to eat then.” I suggest.
“Take the te with you.” She prompts and I shrug. Amber is usually right. I take Megan’s food and
head upstairs. I knock on her door and enter as she calls out. She has her back to me and is focussed
on something on herptop.
“Hey Megan, it’s lunch time.” I inform her.
“I’m in the middle of a lecture, I want to finish. Sorry, I cane downter.” Megan responds, without
looking up. I just ce the food by her on the desk. She nces up and
smiles.
“Thanks.”
“No problem. Make sure to eat before it all goes cold.” Megan promises to eat and I head back
downstairs. Shaun and Amber have set the tes at the dining table and are sitting waiting for me to
join them. Shaun is unusually quiet and I notice that he keeps sneaking sideways nces at Amber as
we eat. She is either very oblivious to his attention or very good at pretending not to notice his awkward
behaviour. From what I understand, Shaun intends to stick around until Bemy gets home. He did
want an extra guard with us at all times, but we have all the other guys out investigating stuff for us. I’m
surprised Bemy left us alone, even if it was only for an hour or so until Shaun showed.
Once Amber and I have gotten through about half our meals and are no longer stuffing our faces and
are now picking at the tes at a far more moderate pace, we talk.
“So, I don’t know how much you know about why I wanted to talk to you, but I’m hoping you 1 can help
me with learning a bit more information about Oracles, Seers and visions in general.Bor I’ve been
having dreams and I am fairly sure that the stuff I’m dreaming about is actually real.” I start. Amber
nods her understanding.
“Yes, I know. I have been thinking about the best way to exin it all. I don’t know what information you
already have.” She starts.
“Not much. I just know that Oracles and Seers both have visions or current or future events.”
“Okay, so the pre–informed for dummies version it is then. First, there is one main difference
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between an Oracle and a Seer. A Seer is a specialty in magic, usually associated with Witches. They
use magic, spells and anything else they can to divine future events. They actively seek the information
and they have to have a specific goal to search for. An Oracle is someone who has visions or
knowledge of the future regardless of if they want them or not. I couldn’t stop seeing the future if I tried.
An Oracle also doesn’t need to be a Witch or any other type of Magic. They could be a Human like
me.” She pauses spectively.
“Your own abilities are closest to that of an Oracle. You see threads regardless of choice. It is an Oracle
ability, although the way that your knowledge presents is different and seems more linked to fate and
carved in stone. Which is I suppose why you aren’t considered an Oracle yourself, although it’s
possible you have some simr abilities. Essentially though, anyone with magic, determination and
perhaps a little bit of natural openness of mind is capable of learning to be a Seer. Oracles are born,
not learned. Does that make sense so far?” I nod enthusiastically. I had never really thought of my
abilities as being like an Oracle’s. But I suppose she is right that I am still seeing the future, or at least
the results of future events.
“How do Oracle abilities work then?” I question.
“It’s a little hard to exin and it’s not the same for all Oracles. But I can tell you how it works for me.” I
nod my agreement. I notice that Shaun is watching Amber talk, rapt with
attention.
“Well, in my case I usually see no more than a few weeks ahead at most. I also only tend to pick up on
stuff rted to things and people associated with me. So I get a lot of information and visions about
events at Borderline, stuff about my family and friends, but I couldn’t tell you the results of a sports
match unless I knew someone ying or attending. I also can’t guarantee that I will see something,
sure I pick up on a lot, but I don’t choose the content that I see. It’s like the universe is constantly
talking to me and trying to give me hints about my own future, but it has no idea on what is actually
important to me, so I just get piles and piles or random visions. Some of it is useful, some of it
completely pointless. I also can’tpletely rely on it as I don’t see everything and it’s easy to miss
something important if I’m not paying proper attention.” she sighs.
“That sounds really overwhelming.” 1ment.
“Like a movie constantly running in the back of my mind.” She confirms.
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“I can sometimes pretend it’s not there and not focus on it. But it’s still going and there’s not
way to turn it off.”
“I know the feeling. I see threads everywhere all the time, even if I’ve seen the threads before. It can be
annoying and really distracting. If an area is too crowded they can even start. to obscure my vision.” I
sigh along with her this time. I then prepare to return to my
questioning.