Dragonfruit: So when do I find out when my curse starts?

Dust: Dragie…

Dragonfruit: When, Papa?

Dust: On your next birth… when you come of age, the first god will choose you.

That’s why he chose today. Exactly one year before it was going to happen. He chose then to tell me of what was going to happen. Maybe it was so I knew there was no way out, no running from it. I’m not sure. But I wasn’t looking forward to my next birthday at all.