By now I had my wits, and I knew what I had seen. This child was blind as night! I recognized this magic thing! "Tell me of my wife! Is there danger where she dreams? As she lays there in her peace, I imagine a dagger's gleam Floating silent, in the darkness... Would she even wake to scream? I am told by a monster, there are serpents where she sleeps."
A crooked smile formed slowly; across her face it creeped, like the shadow of the taker Eclipses those he reaps. As slowly as it came, the smile did retreat. The Oracle came to stand in the shadow of the trees. "By asking me this question, do you accept the gifts I bring?"
In the worry for my other, "Yes!" I almost singed.
The priestess grabbed my wrist as her ivory teeth gleamed. The wind began to shift, Picking up countless leaves; the smell of rotting fish filled the aroma of the breeze. As quickly as it came, the smell was gone, and the girl fell to her knees. The wind and litter fell. The heat rose ten degrees. The child stood, face in pain, sweat running down in beads. "The news is bad," she said simply, and my heart skipped a beat. "It looks as though your snow is in danger, I agree, but my visions, they are short, and the peril I did not see."
The monster spoke the truth: She is in danger! Why tell me? Rumpelstiltskin and his tricks, or an assassin of The Queen's? Has my lover been attacked? Was she murdered in her sleep? Are there knives in her back? ...Fire licking at her feet? The panic on my face was thick enough to read for a blind seer standing Barefoot in the weeds.