>>5310841>>5310518>>5310487>>5310014The voices summon up their projection and begin swiftly relaying every bit of information they can muster from their experience: about the initial question, the awakening of the sight, the ship, the diplomat, and the dark implications of some insidious conspiracy lying behind it all.
[“I…”] Cassandra’s mind is a whir of half-finished thoughts as her brow furrows. [“None of that matters right now! Is my child… Is Cici going to be okay?”]
Around this, they try to inject some optimism, clarifying how they recovered Cici’s mind from its dormant state and stressing the likelihood that in the future, they’ll be better able to assess the signs of an oncoming surge.
“My dear, please don’t just stand there looking pensive!” Brad chastises. “What are they saying?”
“They’re saying…” Cassandra starts, taking a steadying breath. “They’re saying that you were right, Brad. Cici’s gift of prophesy awakened, and… and I’ve never heard of something like this happening before! Not without deliberate abuse of dream tea or opioids or rituals gone wrong!”
“But I have,” the elderly wizard insists. “Though a rarity among rarities, sometimes magically inclined individuals are born whose innate gifts outstrip the development of their faculties. Granted I’ve never heard of this happening with one so young, but-”
“Is my daughter going to be okay?” she demands. “Tell me she’s going to be okay!”
“This episode should have run its course,” the wizard assures her, though his tone is grim. “As for the future…”
“She’ll need to be trained,” Melody finishes as her grandfather struggles to find the words, her usual smug affect dissolved into a look of concern. “She’ll either need specialists in divination or…”
“Or people who properly understand her gifts,” Brad finishes.
