She wasn’t shy about letting people know that she knew where everything was going and that she knew where everything should have gone instead. Cassandras ran around telling people about all the woes that were to be visited on them; Julies, so it seemed, sat there looking smug and told you after the fact what you could have done. She was about as much use as one of those empaths that tell you that someone is angry when they have a gun pointed at you — like, wow, how perceptive.
Julie’s gift hadn’t served to instil her with a desire to save her fellow man. Was it supposed to? Well, wasn’t that the way with these things — didn’t great powers bestow some kind of heroic instinct and innate grace upon the person? Apparently not. Julie had been a misanthrope before she had been given second sight and seeing what was due to happen beforehand and why only served to intensify that feeling.
She had gone from someone who on the surface was fairly happy-go-lucky to someone that snapped all the time at people and because they couldn’t see what she saw and would scarcely believe it if it were described to them she had a doubly frustrating time of it. After her first bad experience of trying to prevent a disaster she got very disheartened. The second time she revealed her knowledge to people and they disbelieved her and then it happened she was taken in for questioning. The third time they believed her and the ones who did got scared — that whole thing of don’t shoot the messenger is easier to obey when the messenger is telling you about something that has already happened; Julie’s brand of message was unnerving — people said they would rather not know. She feared for her liberty if she were to divulge the secrets anymore.
She took to writing books; took to writing “speculative fiction” and whereas someone who lets the words fall from their lips as prognostications gets looked at strangely, a science fiction author doing the same can become a celebrated voice in the genre. Julie Seer was becoming a guaranteed bestseller.
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