The Soothsayer (short story)

 was the first short story in the Lethbridge-Stewart series anthology Lineage. It served as both the prologue and epilogue to the anthology.

Plot
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Characters

 * Mary Lethbridge
 * William Stewart
 * Antony Gale
 * William Shakespeare

Visions

 * Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Lucy Wilson
 * Sir John Lethbridge
 * Mary Lethbridge's mother
 * Benjamin
 * Lady Elizabeth Howlett

Continuity

 * Mary sees a cocoa-skinned girl and a tall blonde woman with a soldier's bearing saving the world after Alistair dies. (PROSE: Avatars of the Intelligence, TV: The Power of Three)
 * William Stewart was first mentioned in PROSE: The Dying Days. A footnote at the end of the story acknowledges this.
 * Mary gets a vision of her future son, Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart, and learns she will die in childbirth. Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart appears in AUDIO: The Revisionists.