"Pancake, baby, green are his eyes... Cursed and blessed, I see this, you will die..." I wish I'd known how accurate that seawitch's prediction was when she gave it to me, and how it'd play out in my life. Even more, I wish she would have given me something I could actually use. I mean, you'd think someone who could visualize the future would have said hey, kid... You're going to be blessed by being adopted, having two dragon best friends, and breaking some of your mom's record-holding scores in your training to be a Talu Defense Agency Operative. However... it's going to feel like some god is playing a game of Corrupt A Wish with your life when right off the bat, you discover your guardian has an abusive husband, then when she remarries the dad of your best friend, you can't help but fall in love with him as the years go by. Yeah, you get so dang weird around him, he starts avoiding you. Which isn't hard to begin with... since he's also a record breaking agent, bless his beautiful dragon six-pack. But, remember, we're playing Corrupt, so just when you're hoping you never see him again, you're gonna get assigned to his team. Oh yeah, and when you get zapped by a giant beast and sent to one of the gazillion levels of hell, here's a few pointers of how to get out, instead of getting STUCK THERE!!! Yup, if she'd said all that, I might have hung around to hear her ramble about pancakes and pie. This story starts out in Part 1, in Daelya's childhood. Part 2 starts in her new adulthood where the SLOW BURN romance commences.