I hope you're enjoying this story, which has had a highly chequered history! Candelas was a seer. She had been gifted – or cursed more like – with the power of divination, the power to see things which no human mind may know. This power lay in her breast, in her very soul, as a cold hard stone, a burden such as might not be borne by one of twice her years, and thrice her strength. She could discern at a glance that this person would sicken; would know, as surely as the sun rises each dawn,... Sign in to see full entry.