1799

That was purely my doing", says Jesus. "Until then, until when you first met me, you were completely under the thrall of the dark lord, and then I intervened, knowing that in time you would be coming over to me. Even as a newborn baby, I saw you and looked on you with eyes of love, and even then, the first spark of response I could read in your eyes. I myself could not recall this until after I had risen from the dead and ascended to be with My Father, since living the mortal life, I had to accept the complete dulling of my senses and facutlies. But this time you were held in a secure and safe place for almost two thousand years. Then, it was I who awakened you, knowing full well that the dark lord in all his arrogant stupidity would never have guessed that I had just tricked him and already robbed you, his prey, from his very jaws...