Page 10 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

To help them, Avalon allowed the dog and pony show where she jumped through hoops.

She pointed at Hart.

“His gift is a heightened sixth sense of being able to ‘lie detect’,” she said before Lucian could say anything.

Then, she began rattling them all off, as if she had something to prove.

Because she did.

If they were going to survive this, they all had to work together.

Already, she was trying to untangle the threads of Fate in order to save as many lives as possible. Those lives being the people in this room.

Hers included.

There was no doubt in her mind that she was the final round in this sick individual’s game.

As of this moment, if what she heard in the static was correct, Lucian was going to die.

Then, there would be more.

It upset and terrified her, since she could see it in the static, as she heard his wails of pain. Not only was he going to lose his life, but so was she.

They were all that stood between this entity and Genesis Manning.

If that darkness won, everything would be unbalanced. There would be no way to save the spirit realm, or to help the wayward psychics find their niche in life.

To help people.

As she told each one of them about their gifts, Oracle-splaining it to them, there was silence.

And it was NOT golden.

It was filled with fear and trepidation. The sadness was now morphing into something more, and she knew they needed to get through this in order to allow her to help navigate this mess here.

When one of Julian’s sister’s raised her hand, Avalon glanced over at her.

“Will Beckett be okay?” Lianna asked. “I’m worried about my sister’s husband.”

Why?

Well, she’d been feeling shitty non-stop over him being hurt in the static—all because she found this case and threw it at them.

While everyone told her it was NOT her fault, it was difficult to believe that. Lianna was worried this was going to destroy everything her brother and sister-in-law had built.

As she spoke, Oracle focused on the woman and could feel her trepidation.

“He will be. Granted, as of this moment, his gift is burned out. Will that return? I don’t know. What I do know is that this entity’s whole goal is to make as many of you inept in this fight. He hates that you help people and wants to make everyone suffer for some reason.”

Julian didn’t understand any of this.

They’d never done anything to anyone, and he couldn’t rationalize why they were being hurt.

“Why?” he asked. “Why is this all happening? If you’re the all-seeing Oracle, surely, you have a clue as to why this is happening.”

Because it had been a long-ass day, Avalon pointed at the couches and wanted to sit down. She and Nate had been traveling for days, and she was exhausted.

As a matter of fact, so was he.