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The Prophecy

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An oft-mentioned threat hanging over The Shelf: Galadriel's collected divinations on the subject of Doll Mortality. The relevant excerpts, for your convenience:

 

 

Girl Talk III

 

 

April 9th, 2009:

 

"Can I have a moment?"

 

"I'm kind of tied up here--"

 

"It's important," Galadriel hissed, flashing the alethiometer at me.

 

"Oh God, what is it now?"

 

She wanted privacy, so we went all the way into the bathroom and closed the door. "Could we get in the--"

 

"No, we are not getting in the SHOWER, I'm pretty sure this is secure enough."

 

"Are you sure--"

 

"Yes, I'm SURE, now what did it say?"

 

"I don't know what it was trying to say--"

 

"What did it POINT TO?"

 

"Horse, crocodile, sun, moon, owl, griffin, wild man, serpent, bread, hourglass," she snapped. What can I say, tempers were running high. "But it pointed to the hourglass over and over again. Very emphatically, the same sequence: wild man, serpent, bread; hourglass, hourglass."

 

"Hourglass means--"

 

"Death," she said, paler than usual.

 

"Or time, or--" I stopped. "Can dolls even die?"

 

"I don't want to find out."

 

"Well, look--the last time it was trying to tell you something, it just meant that Serafina..." I didn't say anything for a moment. "You don't think it's trying to tell us that she'll really kill Faramir, do you?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"Well, you don't have to worry about that, because I'm not going to let that happen. I'm just not. Maybe I have to take a whole bunch of swords to the face, I don't care." I bit my lip. "What does Lyra think?"

 

"She doesn't know--she's let me consult it on my own now, and I didn't want her to see this."

 

"What the hell did you ask it, anyway?"

 

"I didn't ask it anything! She says sometimes she clears her mind and allows it to tell her anything it thinks is important--"

 

I nodded--this is something you can also do with rune stones, for example. (What? Gladdy and I have a number of interests in common.) And thinking of runes reminded me: "Maybe it doesn't mean death -death, you know? I mean, the Tarot Death card doesn't mean that, it means change--it could mean a lot of things. I mean, it kept hitting 'mother' when it was talking about Serafina--it didn't mean Lyra's actual mother at all."

 

"We need to get out the Mirror. We need to get it out now."

 

"Look, let's not be hasty about this. I don't know that you're in a good frame of mind right now. A clear frame of mind." I checked my wall calendar: "Look, Thursday's a full moon, if you think you can wait that long. Would that help at all, the moonlight? I'll keep an extra-close eye on Faramir and Serafina until then. And you're sure you don't want Lyra to help?"

 

"I don't want her to know about this."

 

"Even if she could tell us what it really means?"

 

"Let's try the Mirror before we resort to that."

 

 

 

 

Arts Appreciation

 

 

April 11th, 2009:

 

"So--what do you see?"

 

"A dark room... something orange..."

 

"Fire?"

 

"I don't think it's fire."

 

"Day or night?" I asked, thinking of how the moon symbol had come up.

 

"Day, actually, I think."

 

"If it's day, then can't you see the room? If it's day, how is the room dark?"

 

"I don't know--I can't see. It's a feeling, not a vision." She gritted her teeth. "I'm sensing... something white? And red? A house? I can't see it clearly, though--I don't understand."

 

"Does the dish need to be more reflective? You need me to go get the foil?"

 

"No... no. I don't think I'm going to get anything else from it." Gladdy sighed. "I feel--blocked, somehow."

 

So we packed up, and I felt bad for her, so I got Gladdy a cookie and went to bed and pondered things that are red and white and orange and dark.

 

 

 

Paradise Lost

 

The meaning of the clues from the alethiometer (and some of the clues from the Mirror of Galadriel) is revealed.

 

 

 

See also

 

 

 

 

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