“Oh, yes. Just for a little while…for an odd angle of little that came out, um, very large. If I had not died in truth, I could not have ripped open the wall between the worlds, and the goddess could not have reached in to take back the curse. Which was a drop of the Father’s blood, as nearly as I could tell, though how the Golden General came by such a gift I know not.
I had to die, to go to the other world, and bring back a drop of the Golden General's blood
