Prologue: The city was burning. My city was burning. I could have done something to stop it. If I had just loved him as he wanted to be loved then none of this would have happened. My brothers would not be dead. My way of life would be in ruins now. I can only hope that somewhere in the future that I can only partly see, that there will be someone who will love him the way I should have.

As I entered the temple of Athena the vision struck me. Somewhere in a world so different then mine, a woman whose features echoed my own would walk the paths of the gods and become their oracle as I should have been.

‘I wish you luck sister oracle,’ I whispered to the smoke filled air. ‘May your life be free of hardship and pain...May you never know what pain can befall those who can see the future. May people always believe you when you speak of the future.’

And with that said I went into the temple knowing that I could not escape my fate