She forces you to be her mate, reasoning if you're good enough to get as close to her to grab a handful of tail, your cunning, skills and subtlety would be a perfect skillset to pass on to her offspring. She will extend the same life energy that allows her to live for a thousand years to you to achieve these aims.
Therein lies the "curse" as others describe it as your friends, family and human loved ones die in front of your eyes as the years pass.
Now no-one's actually been able to interview such a person, by the time they realise the curse has been applied, they've long since passed the point of looking good for their age and moved into the unnaturally youthful looking older category but unsubstantiated reports persist surviving over the years from second-hand sources indicate eventually such cursed beings learn to accept these events as the years pass and they help raise many litters with their partners.
