‘Poor little thing. You are not the Unexpected Son. I know, for I have met him—and his prophet.’ I grew very still. Was it a trick? But what he said next was even more frightening. ‘I dreamed you. You become possible the day the Beloved was pulled back from death, undoing so many, many dream prophecies. On that day, I knew something had torn through all the futures and replaced them with new possibilities. It terrified me. I had believed my days as a dream-prophet were well and truly spent. That my time was over, and I could return home. Then the dream of you came. Oh, I did not know it would
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