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Aquarius turns from Sagittarius without speaking, spilling water from her basin which is bright with jeweled insects.

"Would you like to see the brightest part of yourself?" asks the Oracle. "No," says Sagittarius. The Oracle vanishes into the desert dust.

Sagittarius sleeps under the earth.

"Sagittarius, everyone has a kind of desert inside them," says Scorpio.