[Divine certainly has added to this drink, he thinks with no small amount of amusemnet. Not that he minds.]

One would say to begin with the beginning of the story but I have always been fond of the opinion that only the person telling it knows when that is.

[A little on the side of loquaciousness, there. But he leans back and stares into his mug.]

For myself, it likely began when that memory you witnessed was. That path, anyway. [He was born before that, obvious.] So where do you feel your story begins?