★Anastasia★
“You are holding yourself back!” Eloise remarked, her tone of voice sharper than usual. “You are doubting yourself and that doubt is poising your abilities,” she added as she softened her tone. She wasn’t wrong. Doubt had rooted itself deep inside me, growing like a relentless vine, twisting through every thought, every decision. No matter how much I tried to shake it off, it was always there, whispering in the back of my mind. It had been days since my conversation with Sophia, but her words still clung to me, unravelling everything I thought I knew about myself. What if I wasn’t an Oracle? What if everything Eloise had told me was a lie? I sat across from Eloise in the farmhouse, the tension between us as thick as the air before a storm. My fingers drummed restlessly against
