[this is mostly twitter/bluesky/threads writing. So sorry for the formatting.]

Eric long knew this day would come but he didn’t think it would come this fast. Especially not when he been struggling with raising two orphans on his own for 10 years. He even waited an extra year just to make sure he was ready. But now there was no going back, he had to do this.

There was no going back now. For it was the month the twin moons would align again for the 600th time, just 2 months before the twin moons aligned. 2 very important events. Especially when Eric was turning 26 on the alignment of the two moons, so technically he wasn’t fully late.

Ok, maybe Eric was late by like 9 months, but who’s counting. Sure, this whole thing was just supposed to be a promised meeting. There was no guarantee that he would like this person or they would like him. And maybe Eric was a little bit nervous.

After all, he chose to go through the human rite of passage at age 16, just to make sure he knew himself. And maybe to become somewhat worthy of the person he was promised to meet. Especially when said person was the very son of the god of chaos. So can you really blame Eric for being nervous?

Granted this person was turning 600 years old, is a king, and to top it off, a DRAGON! Eric didn’t know anything about kings or dragons, but being the son of chaos must mean they’re just as smart.

After all, Eric got super excited when he learned all his favorite spell books were written by this dragon. From theories on enchantments to how different cultures study magic. For goodness sake, Eric had been following such knowledge since getting his first book at the age of 11.

So to finally meet the author of such knowledge Eric was head over heels. Just thinking about if he could at least least impress enough to ask if the son could share their ultimate library then Eric wouldn’t mind at least sharing space with the guy.

Well… that was the original plan until Eric found himself taking care of 2 kids for a decade. One of them, a boy named Damon was turning 10 soon. While the other was a girl named Emma, who was turning 16. So now Eric had a different goal for this meeting.

If Eric and the son of chaos could get along just enough Eric would ask to explain what the children were, but these kids are “strange”. Especially when Damon, for being almost 10, still was the size and behavior of a 2 year old. While Emma was the size and behavior of a 4 year old. So strange.