Being able to glimpse the future through use of a tool is called "scrying".    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

"The powers of two of the members have hindered my scrying which is why your job is so important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villains by Necessity]

Sometimes, even scrying was dissonantly imprecise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

"But we don't know for sure " even with my scrying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

His boss's scrying skills aren't what they used to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Skellum anxiously watched Chainer in the scrying pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

    Skellum and the First watched the scrying pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

Chainer's lethal dance in the scrying pool, but only the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

    "Get Llawan on the scrying screen," Laquatus said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

Slowly, she turned and left what had become her scrying room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

    The scrying screen went black until the captain barked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

Rickel took Farinelli's reins, and Anna unstrapped the scrying mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

"I'll organize the mages and start distance-scrying," he said immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Gryphon]

Beside her, Jecks laid out the scrying mirror on the stones of the courtyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

A few careful Words of Power sparked a silver-rimmed scrying mirror into life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Of Deception]

She supposed it was even possible to become that familiar using simple scrying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenborn]

We was just wondering whether t'set the ole Ape scrying for you alt over again! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Noon]

The men had something between them on the tabletop-a ceramic scrying-bowl, he thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Gryphon]

    The First also watched Chainer in the scrying pool, ignoring Skellum for the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

She replaced the lutar in its case, then decided to leave the instrument in the scrying room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

Stergos had once explained to Snudge that the windsearch was a faculty closely related to scrying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

Suddenly, she grabbed her lutar, and marched back out and up the stone stairs to the new scrying room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

"Let this scene of scrying mirror filled with light, vanish like the darkness when the sun is bright-".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

"Let this scene of scrying, mirror filled with light, vanish like the darkness when the sun is bright-".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

To the south, ahead of them, rose the white building she had seen a time or more in her scrying spells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

"Let this scene of scrying, mirror filled with light, vanish like the darkness when the sun is bright.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

He had been staring at the scrying stone; no longer relaxed, and no longer so infernally pleased with himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

She picked up the lutar and the leather case with the traveling scrying mirror before she stepped out into the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

The Lord of Stromwer had to have had some warning, some scrying ability, to have gotten his men formed up so quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

She reclaimed her floppy brown riding hat from her Jo, as well as a riding, jacket, and the lutar from the scrying room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

So rather than look for Lashana-because she might be alerted if she sensed someone scrying for her-he looked for an object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenborn]

She scarcely had enough energy for the business at hand, let alone scrying Falcor and elsewhere in Defalk for who knew what.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

After the column slowed and stopped, Anna and the players dismounted, performing the all-too-familiar procedure with the scrying glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]