Runes, Part 1, Chapter 6 - The Despiser's Guidance

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

SRD just answered this one in the GI:

"What now, Foul? Do you tell fortunes by staring into riverbeds?"

Foul gives this prophetic and cryptic response:
"More than you know, fool. Men commonly find their fates graven within the rock, but yours is written in water."

Why water?

Sure, Lord Foul was helping Linden--for his own oblique purposes (if she's, well, let's call it "restricted" by the Masters, she won't be of any obvious use to him). But his paraphrase of Keats is intended as a put-down. "Your actions are too trivial, too ephemeral, to have any lasting meaning."

Really strange - I mean the GI answer.

AATE spoiler:

Spoiler

Can't it have more meaning to it because of the Lost Deep and what Linden encountered there?

Though SRD could answer like that out of wishing not to make spoilers, or maybe even because he thought that out later/subconsciously at all.