Now this was fantastic. I’ve read some extremely promising work from you now – you’ve got this genre nailed…!

Possibly a little predictable that the prophetic lamp would be her choice – and a negative one at that – but you tell it so well I can’t really complain – the last paragraph was excellently awful – the crone character is vile – that is to say, well characterised!

Deserving of a follow, methinks – MH :)

Predictable isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’m glad the telling of it was enjoyable.

Glad you like the crone. I definitely loved writing her character. She’s wickedly delightful!

well who wouldn’t be curious about the future?
After the break i was thinking that some time would pass, but you merely switched POVs, which works, but I was expecting her to be crazy, not the crone to be so cruel. It was a nice surprise for me. I had to read her words twice and let them sink in, because of course she would choose prophecy.. I had to try to think what would happen if she chose madness?

By implication, choosing madness would have been the better choice. The lesser of two evils is still pretty damn evil.

that’s my political view!