“Soothsaying is often tied to your own thoughts. When you read a pattern determined by another individual, it is that individual’s future you see more often than not. But, well . . .” He rubbed his chin. “Say you are entering a pie into a county fair. It’s heavy on your mind. It’s important to you to win the blue ribbon, so to speak. And so, when you peer into the tea leaves of a neighbor, you might see her experience at the fair, such as, oh, petting the head of a lamb. As opposed to a vision of the chimney in her home collapsing. The chimney is arguably the more life-affecting incident, but
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