The Oracle of Oonagh

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The Prophecy of the Stones (AKA La prophétie des pierres ) is a fantasy - novel from 2002, which the then only 13-year-old Flavia Bujor was written.

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In a Paris hospital, Joa, a 14-year-old girl, is grappling with death and is only kept alive by a dream:

In a kingdom ruled by the Council of Twelve, whose goal is to rob people of their freedom, jade, opals and ambre live with different families and on their 14th birthday they get a stone that matches their name. Each will be sent away from home to meet the other two and together they should set out on their way, as it is written in a prophecy. This prophecy was written many centuries ago by a Clohryun named Neophileus who could see into the future so that good could regain its former strength.

Jade, Opale and Ambre decide to work out the secret of their stones together. When they simultaneously pick it up, a strange symbol appears before their eyes. To learn the meaning of this symbol, travel to Nathyrnn, a city that the Council of Twelve uses as a prison for all freedom advocates. There they meet Jean Losserand, who can interpret the symbol. It stands for Oonagh, an oracle that lives in the mountains of fairy.

In the fairy tale, people live peacefully with magical beings because it is the only country that is spared from the Council of Twelve. It is surrounded by a magnetic field that can only be traversed with a belief in the impossible. With the help of Adrien de Rivebel, they free the inhabitants of the city and come to the border of the fairy, where they have to fight against the knights of the council. They almost defeated them when one of the knights of the order suddenly stabs Opals. The people of Nathyrrn flee into the fairy tale and Adrien carries Opale's corpse through the magnetic field, where he falls in love with her.

They stay for a few days with Owen d'Yrdahl, from whom they learn that death is on strike and that Opals can survive if their wound is treated. Adrien reports to the Army of Light to surround the city of Thaar, the city of origins.

When Opale is healthy again, they ride towards the mountains where Oonagh lives. You help the inhabitants of a town to break the seal of darkness that has been placed on them and as a thank you they are given a drink that is supposed to save them from the birds of prey on Oonagh's mountain. Through underground passages they finally get to Oonagh, who, contrary to her expectations, is a lively little girl and sings part of the prophecy to them.

"The chosen one emerges from the darkness,
unite the kingdom
to lead it to the light.
The king who cannot rule
sanctified in the name of the gift.
Three stones, three girls.
One will discover the gift
one will recognize the king
one will persuade the other two to die.
Only one fate will tell of three stones. "

Oonagh tells them that on the day of the summer solstice there will be a battle between the Army of Darkness and the Army of Light and that to do this they will have to persuade Death to end its strike. With a card from her, they travel to the realm of death, across the lake of the past. You overcome his illusions and are the first mortals to enter the realm of death. When they face him, they expect a creature that has emerged from their worst nightmares, but again only a little girl faces them. They manage to convince death that it is loved and are accompanied to the palace of Yrianz de Myrnehl by Rokcdär, an advisor to death.

Ambre recognizes the Nameless One (and falls in love with him), who formerly served the Army of Darkness, then deserted and whose memory was obliterated, when the Chosen and Opals understand what their gift is: hope.

They travel on to Thaar, which has since been taken by the Army of Darkness, and against their will they enter a huge skyscraper where they meet the 13th member of the Council of Twelve. It is not a human being, but the spirit of all twelve council members together, but still independent of them.

From a window you can see the assembled armies on the battlefield. With the chosen one at its head, the Army of Light is doing well, but it still threatens to lose. The 13th member tries to make them understand that the battle is already hopelessly lost because hope is in their stones, from which they can only part in death.

Then Jade understands what is meant in the prophecy and although she does not want to send her friends to their death, she persuades them to jump out of the window to defeat evil and help the light to win. In the jump the stones dissolve and a golden rain pours over the whole world and gives everyone hope. Before they hit the ground, they are caught by the birds of prey and carried to the battlefield. There they meet Oonagh, Adrien, the Chosen, the defeated army and the lucky victors. A golden grain falls from the sky, which they dig and from which a tree grows that will always remember this battle.

In the Paris hospital, the sick girl wakes up after the last night she had this dream. He helped her to see that she must not give up hope and move on. With that, the dream has given her life back.

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  • Flavia Bujor: La prophétie des pierres . Editions Anne Carrière, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84337-193-7 .
  • Flavia Bujor: The Oracle of Oonagh . cbt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-30360-3 (EA Munich 2003, translated by Roseli and Saskia Bontjes van Beek).
  • Flavia Bujor: The Oracle of Oonagh . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86742-606-0 (4 CDs, abridged reading by Kornelia Boje )