Seer Wife: Fantasy

[penthius]

The blank was between her ears. That was the real problem with her. She smiled, she acted fine, she remembered her past. She could think about the future. But when it came to the here-and-now, she was entirely helpless. She remembered her past so that she could make rules for the future based on it. She remembered the future because that was what her family had been bred to do for generations. It made life interesting, having her as a wife. There was no telling what she might think would fit next, because half the time she was remembering the past, and the other half she was foretelling the future, but there wasn't really a way for him to tell which was which. He'd asked her, once, in a rare moment when she seemed wholly with him, whether there was some way she could indicate whether she was in the past or the future. She'd looked at him as if he'd asked her--

Inspiration: Loading up a blank page.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Started out boring, but I think it got somewhere interesting by the end.

Comments

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

I think it's great, even though I tend to dislike most interpretations of foreseeing. I mean, it's just depressing if it's an Unchangeable Future scenario. Bah. Uplifting, it's not.

BUT still think this is an interesting idea AND an interesting POV to explore it with. I mean, interesting ideas are honestly a dime a dozen but in the end don't mean anything. This, on the other hand, has Meaningful Metaphorical Depth and even some Emotional Depth potential.

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

And from the POV of the husband it means you avoid the annoying overly-contrived device of what is essentially constant exposition of her process of action.

[penthius.livejournal.com]

You'd still have to be careful with that, but yeah.