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Joeline was apprehensive, as her mother led her to the Seeress on her thirteenth birthday. "Jo, come on, this won't take long." She knew what the Seeress would tell her, sort of. Her older brother had told her last year what to expect. "She'll tell you things that are supposed to happen in the future. That's what it's supposed to be, anyway. I'm not sure I believe in it." He hadn't believed that the Seeress could see the future. But then, last Christmas, his foster parents were murdered. Just as the Seeress had prophesised. "Joeline. Daughter of Spider and Nightingale." It wasn't a question, but Jo found herself answering anyway. "Yes," she answered. "Dear child. Cursed by your father's genes, a powerful empathic healer." Jo wanted to sigh. All the woman was telling her was what she already knew. It would be nice if she'd tell me that there was going to be a cure for this condition. Jo thought miserably. "You will find your soulmate as a stranger with red hair. You won't like him, but he will grow on you eventually. He will watch as you resolve your past, and he will help you shape your future." "What, and this curse of mine won't scare him off?" "No, he will also be Cursed."