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I shrug. “I have never told anyone,” I say. “I don’t even talk to Dad.”
She nods and looks away. “He has a lot on his mind right now,” she says. “And he is scared. You must keep practising.”
She shuffles around the table and sits down. “Let’s start again,” she says, lining the dominos up. “This isn’t magic and it’s not going to just come to you. You can glimpse what might happen in the future but it is no strange power that allows this.” She leans forward and stares at me. “Think again about the dominos. What happens when we knock the first one down?”
I sigh because we have been over this a million times. “They all fall down,” I say.
“That’s right,” she says quickly. “And you know what is going to happen even before it reaches the last one, don’t you, because you know what is going to happen to each of them along the way, right?”
I nod.
“It is not magic or destiny that makes the last one fall. It is the rules of the world. You need to concentrate on seeing the path that leads from the first to the last before the tiles fall. Then you can do the same with everything else. Everything that
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