Chapter 42

“It was you,” the woman who joined us said.

Her eyes were white and unfocused. She moved with a guide yet when her unseeing eyes settled in my direction, it felt as if she could see deep into my soul.

“Your- Your Holiness.” Jennifer was the one who got her wits about her first. “It is a pleasure to meet you. I am…” Though her words were polite, the expression on her face was not.

“Jennifer Slater, you can be on your way.” The oracle spoke with her twittery voice that resonated with power. “Take your little friends with you.”

“Your Holiness…” Jennifer started to protest but the oracle whose unfocused eyes had been in my direction, turned to her. “Yes, yes! We will be on our way!” She grabbed the hand of the friend closest to her and they rushed out of the garden.

The oracle turned to me. I patted my chest from how frightened I had gotten. There was no reason to be frightened. In the kingdom, the oracle barely had any power. Oracles were called friends of the goddess and her s