A/N: Presumably anyone who's got this far now knows that this is "a series of vignettes based around Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'", so I'll leave that bit out. Oh. Damn. Anyway, this one's based around the story of Ocyrhoe, a woman who could see the future but was changed into a mare for revealing too many secrets and knowing too much.
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Gifted, her teachers called her. Special. She believed them then.
Deluded, foolish, *lying*, are all the words they have for her now.
Spider web threads of the future shuttling, warp and weft intertwined.
It hurts. She had not foreseen that. As the power to untangle the ravelled knot of the not-now is wrenched from her, she glimpses the silvered, shining thread that is herself. And Sibyll Trelawney breaks, the weight of forbidden knowledge forcing her open.
Foolish, deluded, *lying*.
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Gifted, her teachers called her. Special. She believed them then.
Deluded, foolish, *lying*, are all the words they have for her now.
Spider web threads of the future shuttling, warp and weft intertwined.
It hurts. She had not foreseen that. As the power to untangle the ravelled knot of the not-now is wrenched from her, she glimpses the silvered, shining thread that is herself. And Sibyll Trelawney breaks, the weight of forbidden knowledge forcing her open.
Foolish, deluded, *lying*.