Raven sighed as she settled into her meditations. She wondered if she'd manage this time. Three. Two. One.
"Sis?"
Raven sighed again. "Yes?"
"You foresaw this 'Ranma' person?"
Raven opened one eye to regard her sister. Nabiki. Who had the ability to speak with animals and to shadowport. Who saw herself as an information broker. "I can't tell you if you're going to resell anything."
"Why not?" asked Nabiki, trying to look innocent.
"Because I've foreseen that as well," said Raven, closing that eye and settling back into her lotus position. "It would be bad."
"How bad?" asked Nabiki.
"VERY bad," said Raven. "'Yakuza killing Akane and pumping you full of drugs to tell everything you knew before they turned you into a breeder of superpowered minions' level of bad."
"Oh," said Nabiki. "Okay, that's bad."
Raven sighed and settled back into her meditation as Nabiki left, clearing her mind.
"Raven?"
"Grrrrrr," growled Raven as she now opened an eye to regard Akane. "I'm trying to meditate."
"Well, it's just if you knew anything about this Ranma..." said Akane.
"Can't tell you," said Raven. "I've foreseen it. You blab details in public when he's said something that infuriates you, followed by nastiness. You end up dead. Let's not go there."
"Oh," said Akane. "That's pretty bad."
"Yes it is," said Raven as she watched Akane leave. She tapped her fingers against one leg briefly, waiting, then got up to look for Kasumi.
Kasumi was in the kitchen, looking thoughtful.
"Yes," said Raven without preamble. "I've foreseen Ranma coming here. Yes, he's bringing problems. No, he doesn't have any particular foods he likes. No, he's not older than you. On the other hand, he's not particularly boring. Yes, he knows how to deal with people who have special powers and abilities - he has a few of those himself. Yes, he's got other girls associated with him who will come by. One of whom is an alien from another planet with a strange culture and even stranger food preferences. Yes, he knows Batman personally but Batman doesn't normally GIVE autographs because it's against his dark and mysterious image. No, I don't know much more than that because my glimpses of the future don't exactly come with footnotes or afterwords."
"Oh," said Kasumi, not used to Raven being so talkative.
"Now I'm going to go back to try and meditate because things are going to get a lot louder here in the near future," said Raven.
"Okay, have fun," said Kasumi.
Raven rolled her eyes and muttered something as she went back up the stairs, mainly commenting on how Kasumi's remark indicated how little her sisters understood her need for meditation.
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