Strange.
Yes, Cecilia knew Ruby operated under the assumption that she was dead and gone. But Ruby's prophecy… She didn't seem to know that Cecilia had saved Arkai. Her vision had ended at the tragedy, not the intervention.
Her prophecy that he had died… it was oddly specific. No one outside that ashen valley could have known his life hung by a thread last night, seconds from oblivion. Did that mean the gods themselves had fated the Black Wolf King to die on that mountain, and she and Oathran had performed an act of cosmic defiance? Had they snatched a soul from a pre-written script?
But the prophecy itself was strange.
Why prophesy after the fact? Why proclaim the death of the king in the wake of the disaster, instead of issuing a warning before the mountain tore itself apart?
