Today Banquo and I were walking after returning from a victorious battle, it was such a glorious day despite the bad weather. We came across three unnatural seeming women who dressed and behaved strangely. Banquo was concerned with their attire and said they seemed as if they weren't human, he seemed to be confused by the fact that the women had beards and I as well. I asked them who they are and they answered mysteriously, rather than explaining themselves, one shouted out "All hail, Macbeth! All hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!" This is my current title, so I suppose it made some sort of sense to address me as such I just didn't understand as to why she chose to hail to me. After the other sisters hailed as well, but instead called me Thane of Cawdore and king hereafter. This startled me and at the time I felt almost disturbed by their confidence to shout out such words.

Banquo noticed I was shaken and called out my behaviour almost immediately, he asked why I was afraid of the words when they predicted good things for me. He spoke to the women and wondered why they had predicted things for me and not him, so he asked them to give him a prediction as well. The women call Banquo lesser than I, but still greater, then not so happy, yet happier, which are contractions and seem to make little sense. The last woman said that Banquo's descendants would become kings, but he would not. This made me curious about what they had to say and I asked them to tell me more. I questioned why they had called me Thane of Cawdore, since that was not the title I received after my father passed. Even further they called me king hereafter, and the idea of me becoming king just seemed so absurd at the time, I wondered where they had gotten this information, but they had vanished before they could answer me. It was like they had evanesced, there one moment and gone the next.

Banquo and I pondered their words briefly when Ross and Agnus appeared, they told me that the king was proud of my success and I received the greatest news. They appointed me Thane of Cawdore, which confused me because the current Thane of Cawdore is alive. Apparently he is getting the death sentence, so now the title is mine and the first part of the witches prophecy has come to be! I asked Banquo if he believed his children would become kings, since the first part of witches prophecy turned out to be true and he said that agents of darkness tell little truth about unimportant things so they can betray us. I am excited to say that I am now on the right path to becoming king!

But since the prophecy was true, is it really right to trust that the prophecy is good? I'm unsure on how I feel about supernatural temptation, but maybe this time the words of the witches really do predict the future. For a brief moment I thought of horrible things, things I wished didn't come to my mind as quickly as they did. Just rewriting those words makes my stomach churn and my heart ache with deep dread. I thought, just briefly about bloodshed, and even though they are just thoughts, the fact that I even imagined it shakes me to my core. Do I really need to murder in order to become king? Maybe fate will bring me the title and I won't have to act at all. I wish to speak to Banquo about this to get his opinions. At this time I am unsure if I really should allow fate to guide me, I still have the free will to do as I please, so maybe in this case fate is a door that must be forced open. I feel as though I have been given hope and maybe my fantasies of being king will soon become reality.