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Death:
… the tooth is mine … divination is mine … if you dare touch the tooth, you will be mine …
Fortune: … yes, child, grim sister is particular about the tooth, but we each share in turn … we each tell in turn …
Clever: What does the tooth tell?
1.8 million year-old tooth of Paranthropus robustus*
From blind to oracular, the sisters shapeshift.
Past: … little child of mine … i hold the tooth and tell of fortune … spinning wheels … rotating rings … pivoting shafts … pinned to a turning hinge …
Present: … oh, little sister! … i hold the tooth and tell of love! …
Future:
… i hold the tooth, little bitch, and tell of death … your death …
Clever: Heroes don’t die! I hold the tooth and tell of victory!
Future:
… touch the tooth, and i tell of your heart and liver tied up in your frock … that will make a fine relic …
Clever (collapse & crash of certainty; quick recalculation): Begging your pardon, ma’am. I promise on my dead mother’s grave not to trouble your tooth.
Present: … alas, little sister! … our deadly sister tells all! … the future threatens! the past repeats! … come into the now! leap with me on a wave! …