“You will end in the rain”

“You will end in the rain” is the refrain of Lisa Constanopoulos’s warning to Myfanwy Thomas: she will be betrayed by a member of her Court, lose everything, and reach an end beyond Lisa’s ability to see. The phrase joins two encounters into a prophecy whose repeated rain imagery makes Myfanwy’s unexplained past and threatening future seem to converge.

The Prophecy of Betrayal

At a meal with Myfanwy, Lisa predicts that a member of the Court will betray her. She describes Myfanwy standing in the rain with dead men all around her, presenting the betrayal not as an abstract risk but as a scene of ruin. Myfanwy immediately asks how Lisa knows; Lisa says she can see it clearly, while keeping hold of Myfanwy’s hands.

The prediction has particular force because Myfanwy already knows the rain as part of her own disrupted history. When she later tells Ingrid about opening her eyes and finding herself standing in the rain, she deliberately leaves out Bronwyn and withholds how much her predecessor’s information has revealed. That partial account makes the image both a remembered beginning and a warning of what may come, without resolving whether the prophecy describes the same event or a future one.

The Warning at the Hotel

After Lisa is escorted to her hotel suite, she grips Myfanwy’s wrist, pulls her close, and whispers that bad things are coming. She says Myfanwy will lose everything and end in the rain, then adds that she cannot see beyond that point. The narrowing of Lisa’s vision turns the prophecy into a boundary: she claims knowledge of the coming catastrophe, but not of Myfanwy’s fate after it.

Lisa tells Myfanwy to enjoy herself while she can. The intimate gesture and quiet delivery contrast with the scale of the forecast; Myfanwy is left shaking in the hallway after Lisa shuts the door. She returns home with Ingrid and Anthony and sits alone in the dark among her shopping bags, an ordinary aftermath made unsettling by the warning’s certainty.

Repetition and Uncertainty

The rain prophecy changes in emphasis as it recurs. At the meal, it is tied to betrayal by a Court member and surrounded by dead men; at the hotel, Lisa stresses the approaching losses and the limit of her own sight. Both versions converge on the same final image, making the phrase a repeated verbal marker of danger rather than an explanation of exactly what will happen.

Its force rests on that unresolved gap. Lisa speaks with confidence about betrayal and devastation, yet cannot see beyond Myfanwy’s ending in the rain. The warning therefore offers foreknowledge without security: it gives Myfanwy a shape for the danger ahead, but no way to know its timing, its precise course, or what lies beyond it.