“Your brother has a particular destiny,” Ryzek said, looking the knife over. “I assume, since you did not know your own fate, that you don’t know his, either?” Ryzek grinned the way he always did when he knew something other people didn’t. “‘To see the future of the galaxy,’” Ryzek quoted, in Shotet this time. “In other words, to be this planet’s next oracle.” Akos was silent. I sat back from the crack in the wall, closing my eyes against the line of light so I could think. For my brother and my father, every sojourn since Ryzek was young had been a search for an oracle, and every search had
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