Arcadia
“‘How do your theories stand up, Storyteller?’ she asked him.‘I am devastated,’ he said. ‘I planned to give cast-iron proof of the foolishness of prophecy, and I have accomplished the opposite.’‘Oh, poor you,’ she said unsympathetically, ‘you so hate being wrong.’‘It’s not funny. It is her,’ he said. ‘Her name, or rather names, are as they are in the manuscript. She is a girl of some fifteen years. She is dressed strangely, but the descriptions fit as well. I am overwhelmed by what has happened.... I can still scarcely credit it. What do you think?’‘She seems perfectly sweet.’Henary grimaced. He had just witnessed a girl reading from the manuscript he had spent several years trying to decipher. She had shown it to be one of the most significant passages in the Story, but far older than the Story itself. How could that be? She had done it perfectly, as though it was nothing. Then she had not only tackled its meaning but even casually pointed out a couple of mistakes and offered corrections.‘It is impossible,’ he told Catherine.MoreLess
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