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“Read them again!”

The palace Minister pounded the ornate, dark wood dais, scattering the stones tossed from the Oracle’s hand. Startled, the Oracle at first flinched, then turned her resolve to iron.

“Minister Gideon-”

“I said, read them again!”

Clenching her jaw, the Oracle gathered the stones in a swift, one handed motion, and cast them again across the surface of the dais without ever taking her narrowed gaze from the Minister. Once again, the stones read as they had the last two times she had cast them for the Minister, and as they had the first time she had received the prophecy a day ago. Without even glancing at the stones, the seer pronounced the  judgment of the Oracle Stones as no different than before.

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