Twelfth Missive

[uxoriousemperor]

I...I find myself at a loss for words

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video; pretend the mane is red >>

[reginagloriae]

I'm sorry for your future loss.

Cursed, I presume?

[uxoriousemperor]

Thank you for your kind words.

Yep. She's a Kirin/Unicorn

[reginagloriae]

At least think, wherever that was true or lie, that you have decades to come with your son. Cherish that time together.

Is her voice still distinct?

[uxoriousemperor]

I will have two decades with my son. Knowing that there is such a finite period of time in which he will be part of my life is not exactly a comforting thought. He is my heir as well as my son. He was to have inherited the empire upon my death.

And now I see how Ferdinand would have arrived at that position instead.

video; yes it is!

[reginagloriae]

I understand. No dynasties last forever according to the Ever-King. It's not only painful for you as a father but for you as a ruler of your people.

Hee! He's prolly not gonna mention the oddity because he won't want to be rude

[uxoriousemperor]

Precisely. It is also difficult in that I do not know the particulars of the event. There are many things that could have led to my son's death, even at so young an age. But I have not gathered the courage to ask Elisabeth the particulars just yet.

video; daaww she's amused at the politeness because is obvious she's... a Kirin? XD

[reginagloriae]

You want to change this from happening? Or do you just want to know the particulars?

Franz is good at ignoring the obvious^^

[uxoriousemperor]

Would it be possible to change such a thing? It occurred - will occur - for my wife. She has already experienced it. How can one change something that another has already experienced?

I wish to know the particulars. I am sure that when I return home to Vienna I will forget them, but here, for now, it may give me some piece of mind. I am at a loss to understand how the boy would have died so young.

video; Go Franz :D

[reginagloriae]

I don't know. Maybe it could create an alternate world. Maybe it wouldn't change her world, but yours.

That's one unfortunate side effect of this place.

He's special like that^^

[uxoriousemperor]

An alternate world? The very idea is difficult to grasp. How could things occur for Elisabeth and yet not for me? Which would be the correct sequence of events? If it were to happen, would Elisabeth be in my alternate world, or would she be missing from it, as she had experienced events differently? The mind boggles in the attempt to rationalize such a thing.

And this could be a common occurrence? Do you know anyone for whom this has happened?

[reginagloriae]

Yeah, I imagine that any alternate timeline will have the same people but it would be difference in the choices made or the road taken. The City has often showed me what would have been of me if I took another choices or if I was born under different circumstances.

There are a lot of theories. The library has many books about these studies.

[uxoriousemperor]

But, would the Elisabeth there still be my Elisabeth? How would such a thing be possible? How can the City know what would have been?

[reginagloriae]

Whatever changes in this "alternate" lives is a choice that sets a chain of event, or something bigger. I guess Elisabeth will be Elisabeth and your son will be your son, all depending the change isn't too big.