“You have reacted that way every time I have told you since we met.” she says with all seriousness.
My laughing stops immediately. “Wait your serious?”
“Unfortunately we can’t take the time to do this like we usually do, but your feelings for me can only mean one thing.”
“It means that I love you. It’s not complicated or anything.”
“Obviously you love me, that’s the curse on your soul.”
“Curse on my soul?”
“For as long as you stand immortal your love will come and pass for you to bear witness.”
“Sweetie, neither of us is immortal. Your just a normal girl who has a wild imagination.”
“You’re not listening to me! Those stories that you get from me are true stories. They are our stories as true love across 60 centuries.”
“So the next thing your going to tell me is that you can prove it, but this time it’s complicated.”
“How in the hell did you know that?” she asks genuinely surprised.
“Moreover there’s a prophecy that will lead to the end of days.”
“Okay, now you’re sounding weird. Nobody knows that except my mother, sister, and I.”
“Don’t forget the Oracle who forecast it.”
“No, The First Hunter killed them during the 5th crusade.”
“Obviously, and it all falls to me to save the world, right?”
“That depends on how the spear reacts to you.”
“Nice touch, so if I pick up this spear I will gain magic powers and make the prophecy fulfill?”
“Well, the thing is I can only verify two curses for you. If you pick it up and one overrides the other, well, I don’t want to think about it.”
“So I am going to review this, because this is weird. If I am to believe this whole thing than I am a thrice cursed man. Cursed first to be your love. Which can’t possibly be a bad thing by the way. And my second curse is to be ’The First Hunter’ who is a super bad guy that hunts and kills ’subs’ for reasons no one can explain. Finally, the third curse is one you don’t even know. It has something to do with what I will unwittingly do. This thing that I am going to do will release an apocalypse on the world. Did I get it right?”
“Well yes, but how did know all of that?”
“It’s simple, I am dreaming. In this dream I am being plunged into a modern fantasy universe with all the standard cliches that make them enduring.”
“So you don’t believe me?”
“Of course I do.”
“But you think this is a dream.”
“Sure, but if I don’t believe you then we have to go on some fantastical trip into the past to convince me.”
“Now your being foolish. Time travel is clearly impossible.”
“So is the idea of a hidden culture of sub humans with strange and mystical powers.”
“No sub has ’strange and mystical powers’. We all pretty much understand everyone’s abilities except the cursed.”
“Oh? So how does your power work?”
“The most recent scientific explanation states that while the manifestation of the ability can vary from one muse to the next the presence or touch of one stimulates the creative centers of the brain causing hyperactivity in these areas. The hyperactivity of these areas creates a field of energy which has the effect of energizing the muse who originated it.”
