fantasy
Nahlah bint Rumiya
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(Tales of the Divide Collab: Tale 3,212- The Oracle) They say the desert doesnโt forgive. But I know betterโit remembers. I was born beneath a scorched moon, where the dunes hum with secrets and the wind speaks in riddles. The sight left me earlyโsome curse, they said. Some gift, my mother whispered before the fever took her. I never saw her face, but I remember the warmth of her hands and the sound of her voice when she told me that fire lives in our blood.
I learned to see differently. Not with eyes, but with flame. The visions came in wavesโburning, shifting things that pulled me into truths not meant for mortal minds. Each prophecy left a mark. Memory faded in trade. Names, birthdays, whole yearsโgone. But the people kept coming. They knelt in the sand outside my tent, offered coin, blood, love, whatever they had. All for a glimpse of something beyond the horizon.
And I gave it to them. Always.
I wear the blindfold not to hide my weakness, but to shield others from the truth in my gaze. The magic within me is old, older than the cities swallowed by the sand. It burns too bright now, fraying the edges of what little I have left. Some days, I wake and forget where I am. Who I am. But the flame always brings me back, if only to remind me that Iโm not done yet.
They call me oracle. Witch. Demon. Iโve been hunted, worshipped, betrayed. Iโve walked the same path a hundred times and still find new bones in the dust. But I keep walking.
Because the desert remembers.
And so do Iโjust enough to keep going. ๐
Fortune Teller
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