"Not intentionally?" he says, sounding just as confused himself. He shrugs helplessly. "It was the first time it ever happened... I spit a bunch of watermelon seeds on the ground, and when I woke up they'd grown into melons shaped like me..."

Which is, really, one of the weirdest things to say, but here we are. It's just plain true.

"Making things like that was something I inherited from my real mom... being a Harbinger just made it way easier. Usually, I'd have to spit on the seed and plant it, but when I was in Wismuth I could just make fruits and stuff grow into animals just by being around them."

It can been super cool, but also pretty scary in retrospect.