Vee sat down at the table, glad that she was alone up here. Most people didn't bother to climb all the way up the North Tower to the Divination classroom unless they had a lesson here, as it was a bit out of the way and involved a lot of stairs. She needed it though right now.
She often came up here to practice or help others, and this was were all the supplies were. She wanted the crystal ball today, and she didn't have one in her dorm. After the first one had been broken, she had decided it was best just to come up here when she needed it. Which was now, as she wanted to figure out the issue between Dory and CeCe, yet her dreams had been overtaken by this strange man instead. So the crystal ball it was.
She set everything up on a small table in the corner. She hoped it would work, it had been a while since she had practiced, though she probably was due some more practice so it was nice to have a more interesting reason to. She sat down, closed and opened her eyes, put her hands on the table in front of her, and focussed on getting into the right headspace.
It was all a blur at first, then two almost cloud-like shapes spun out, and Vee immediately realised they represented the two girls. Others appeared, surrounding the initial two, other friends perhaps she thought, Vee knew they were part of a larger friendship circle. They were all around the other two, they were interwined, it all seemed a standard representation of a friendship circle, with two particularly close friends in focus moreso than the rest.
Something changed suddenly, there was almost a shift in one of the two initial swirls, though Vee struggled to tell exactly which of the girls it was supposed to be, she didn't know either of the two quite well enough to know. They seemed to be together and apart at the same time, it was a bit odd, though she couldn't quite put her finger on exactly what it was. The smaller surrounding swirl collapsed in on the two, enveloping one of them and separating them. It looked like there was an amount of resistance, though it was a little unclear.
What was once a more pleasant sight, now was clearly showing emotions running high and negativity flooded the crystal ball. Some rays of what may have been good intentions, but mostly bad, as the swarm took over, then almost fled around the ball, leaving one little piece behind, it almost seemed smaller than before, just floating there, by itself.
As the lonely cloud remained, Vee could see a some wisps of it around the edges, like it was keeping the other at bay, setting up an invisible barrier, ensuring the separation, as the last one bounced around the crystal ball to no avail.
Vee took a short break, her hands on her head, trying to make sense of it all. She got the general gist of it, but it wasn't specific enough to be helpful. There was definitely an event that triggered this, but she couldn't grasp exactly what it was. Though it looked like their other friends were the ones that pulled Dory away from CeCe, that was new. CeCe at least hadn't mentioned anything like that to her.
She decided to try and look into the future more, as that was more important anyway - you couldn't change the past, but the future, that was often wide open and full of possibilities. She put her hands back on the table and refocussed her thoughts.
The crystal ball was as she'd left it, with wisps peeking around the edges of the ball, then suddenly, some of it broke off and returned to the front, joining up with the other cloud, just like at the beginning, the two of them, together. However, the others were still there, in fact Vee noticed there was an increase in it's behaviour, almost getting more aggressive, though it only seemed to make the other two further intwined.
Suddenly it all shifted back to where it was a minute ago, the single swirl alone at the front. Then the invisible barrier dropped, but nothing seemed to happen. Then, as Vee looked more closely, she could see the swarm was separating into small dots, equally spaced out around the ball, mimicking the one lonely cloud. They all stood still, strangely so. Like they barely associated with one another.
After that, the crystal ball went back to it's initial state, a white fog taking up most of it, slowly making circles around itself.
Vee sat back, deciphering what she just saw. It definitely was two distinct possible futures there, there was no doubt about it. Well, there could even be more she thought, but those seemed like two main ones. The first, the CeCe and Dory make up, but the others aren't happy about it. The second wasn't quite as clear, it seemed like they were just apart. Maybe it was like if they graduated and all stopped being friends naturally, Vee thought, as there wasn't any obvious happiness or sadness in that one at all.
Vee had seen Dory in class earlier, but hadn't mentioned that she was looking into this, as she didn't want to in case she found something. Nothing here was really as specific as she'd like, but it was a bit. She should talk to CeCe. She wondered if she was on the WizGiz, if she was, she could message her now and get her to come up here. She opened it up and was glad to see her online.
"Hey, meet me in the Divination classroom if you can, I'm here right now and have a small update on everything." she asked CeCe, hoping that she was free.
She'd hang up around here for a bit anyway, she always liked this room and she needed a bit of peace and quiet after that to help her thoughts, in case anything else came to mind. Plus if CeCe was here, she may be able to try again and see a few more details. It definitely helped with people she knew better, but also people nearby when she was trying to see specific things like this.
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