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"But if you've been working on this already, isn't your false prophecy already written?"

"My visions come in fragments, you understand," said Alvis, laying a hand on his chest. "The whispers I've received thus far are vague, but somehow I suspect a more complete prophecy will be coming very soon."

"Divination is irritatingly inexact even when it's real, from the research Alvis has done," Verity said. "It's astonishing we're the first ones to have fabricated it."

Alvis laughed. "Do you really think we are?"