‘The Oracle…’ Well, I couldn’t wrap my head around the idea yet. It didn’t feel real; it was as if it was all happening to someone else, and I was just a silent spectator. But I had more pressing matters to attend to at the moment than accepting the fact that I was in fact the Oracle who was believed to be just a myth. Information was being loaded into my brain at an alarming speed that I had no scope to deal with. I tried to push everything to the back of my mind so that I wouldn’t be overwhelmed, but it didn’t work. I couldn’t even breathe properly and I was feeling slightly dizzy. How could I shield myself? 'Wait. Shield! Yes, that’s it! Maybe that would work?' I closed my eyes and focused on the image of a shield. I tried to think of it as detailed as possible. Slowly, a picture b