Interesting. Can't wait to read more. A bit more bacground info would be useful. Plz update soon!

El Cosmos-o, thank you for you wonderful review. I usually make it a point to thank everyone personally who reviews, (I hope you come on back to check it out) No, this isn't the greater work just an Idea I needed to get down. I actaully posted the greater work today, fancy that. But I will say you do know how to leave a review, it left me all warm and fuzzy!
Thanks again!
-Vae Victus
Woe the conqured

very interesting. i'm wondering if this is part of that one greater work you spoke of in your bio? i got the impression that it was just a chunk of something, not a stand-alone piece, specifically from the last paragraph (though the second sentence is a good place to go for something to wrap it up if it is on its own).
you description and vocabulary are excellent and very compelling. the first paragraph didn't really make sense at first but it most definetly caught my interest.
the thing i'm most curious about with this is some elaboration on the whole regular oracle vs. (somewhat) demonic oracle, and also how being so linked to "evil" as you put it affects the oracle, if that gives any insight.
one thing that really bugged me about this was the phrase "it was as though she were in a trance". it's incredibly weak next to the rest of the piece in a part where you specifically need something strong. "as though" is too iffy. something more concrete like "she was in a trance" would be better (though obviously you'd need to work in your mad description skillz on that one :P ).
one error i noticed was you used the word "vein" when you weren't talking about the circulatory system.
but other than that the piece is extremely well done (with names that people of the culture would actually have too! yey for accurate details!).