Alice walked over and pulled a thin notebook from the cabinet.
Unlike Roselle's Travels, which was obviously anything but ordinary, this seemed to be a completely unremarkable book... Oh wait, the stories inside had been copied by hand!
Alice turned to look at Edwina.
"I collected this at a secret gathering not long ago," Edwina said as she walked over. "It contains a very interesting story, though it should be fictional, because..."
She paused without explaining why, then smiled at Alice. "You should be interested in it, because the protagonist is a 'soothsayer.'"
A soothsayer?
Alice froze slightly and opened it with curiosity.
Cassandra, the third daughter of King Priam of Troy and Queen Hecuba, was their most beautiful daughter. She was as beautiful as golden Aphrodite and served as Apollo's priestess...
Huh???
The first familiar name was a hallucination, the second was a coincidence, the third, fourth, fifth...
Fine, it was not quite that exaggerated, but with Cassandra, Aphrodite, and Apollo appearing together, Alice had already given up all hope.
...This was obviously Greek Mythology!
No, she could not be certain. Maybe it was Roman Mythology, haha.
Alice finished reading the entire story with the expression of an old man staring at a phone on the subway.
In the story, Cassandra was a princess of Troy. Apollo had once granted her the power of prophecy, but after she refused to sleep with him, he cursed her, turning her into a soothsayer whose prophecies no one believed.
What followed was Cassandra's tragic life, and in the end, she died because no one believed her prophecies.
Alice patiently finished the story. Though she did not remember many of its details clearly, the familiar names and similar content allowed her to conclude that this was Greek Mythology or Roman Mythology copied down