Fortuna Verto

80-Fortuna Verto

Dear Readers,

Thank you for reading our tale to the very end. Working so directly with the other archive staff, I felt like it would be my responsibility to keep a historical record of everything we had gone through to bring both of our worlds into the future. Alternatively, Rosa herself seemed to even find value in such records being available to the people of Aestus as well, although I admit to being uncertain what she would plan to do with them. The girl seems intent on beginning the legend of the Celesi Mythos, that much does remain very certain. As one who has grown up in her society, struggling to ensure that the history of my own people remains known, I can't but wish her all the best in ensuring a success in her similar vision. We may have our own individual ways of approaching such stuff, but that doesn't make one any more valid than the other.

Rosa was actually the one who came up with the idea to call the entire thing by the title Fortuna Verto, saying that it sounded extra Terran Mythos by making the name outright latin. Supposedly, it was a reference to how we had inverted our fortunes or something. Quite certainly, there were plenty of inversions involved, considering all of the parallel world strife we went through, and Rosa couldn't be any more the expert in all of the parallels of that nature. Fate though was much more my accomplishment, we had both agreed on that, how we had committed Ruixse from a path of blind chance to an opportunity of controlled fate. Rosa is still honestly trying to come to terms with the meaning behind fate, though she's mostly just committed something sounding so unscientific to just simply being a neglectable fact. Considering the girl had once invented spellcraft for a while on a whim, I still remain uncertain how she could possibly expect rational to remain blindly scientific. Well, we each have our own strengths, and having attained our own distinct individuality, I really shouldn't let the thought bother me too much.

In the five solar cycles since we achieved our own distinct individuality, we really have started seeing each other considerably less frequently. She spends most of her time working for Hypertech, especially since completing her courses at the academy. She even let my sister have her workshop, which has since been rendered into a sort of community events office. Of course, Snowbell still makes appearances for concerts, all of which are organized through the same community events office, but it has become that her visits to this world have been more as a guest than a resident. I certainly could not hold that against her, having done much the same myself. Her business pretty much owns my office now, Sophie having pretty much moved into the place after finding it much more comfortable to help with the business but to be a bit more removed from the technical aspects of it. Suffice it to say that I quickly found the decor of the place unrecognizable, but that's probably for the best. Considering how infrequently I'm on that side at all, especially considering that most of my work on that side is now invested between either supporting Snowbell's performances or handling some informational maintenance work with Holi.. I really haven't had time to worry about such an office at all.

Yes, even having the ability to manipulate time, it hasn't suddenly resulted in me having infinite amounts of time to work with. Quite rightfully, our special shifts had fallen into a rather substantial amount of misuse as well. While time is frozen, there just isn't much that I might possibly get done, and even taking advantage of it for sleeping had started to quickly fall out of favour, as it made it difficult to match schedule with what everyone else was doing. At most, it became a useful trick when there was something substantial to do on Aestus, or a useful service to provide when Lyun had stuff of her own to get done. Likewise, I've noticed that Lyun hasn't found much use for shifts that would just require maintaining equipment that would get little use. We've used it for special effects at concerts, but the whole process has become more a novelty than being actually functional. Overall, it's as if the two of us have suddenly shifted to becoming much more normal people.. with exception to visits that would be impossible by regular people, the chaos of our nature couldn't be denied that much.

Of course, there are great reasons for that too. Making use of our own chaos, we managed to orchestrate the fates that would ensure Mheridz and Velvet's return to us, meaning we both had our hands full learning how to be good parents. Good parents, not just parents, we had an obligation to uphold with a couple key people who shared a name with our children. Even still so young, you can see the similarities between them clear as day. Mheridz is already quite the clever child, endlessly getting into mischief simply to appease her own natural curiosity. Velvet meanwhile appears to be quite the wild child, even Holi has complained about how hard it's been to keep up. However, already there have been a few differences showing up at the same time. Velvet had developed quite the passions of an artist, her childish drawings becoming quite a collection for Holi to keep up with. Mheridz was quite the fan of making new friends at the academy, eager to always explore new social opportunities. I suspect that both passions were probably held by the previous Velvet and Mheridz too, just simply in a form that they never had the opportunity to realize. This time, though, Rosa and I were working earnestly to ensure that their successors had all the opportunity in the world to be whatever they truly wished to be, including them in our lives as much as possible.

Now, that should make it pretty clear why the both of us have found ourselves with very little free time available to us. Quite honestly, that's not even where it ends. Hypertech and the academy both held strong expectations in society now, with how much importance both had garnished. Hypertech Aerospace was a thing, HTAS, actually qualifying Holi's administrative credentials as being genuinely intended. The foundry wasn't even a word around here anymore, all of their outposts now simply under ownership of the academy. Rosa herself basically then worked in HTAS high command, as the highest ranking staff. Drew didn't want the position, taking care of the parent company was more than enough work for him as things stood. Meanwhile, I had found myself not just a teacher, but actually a board member of Administration, Mherdiz's original plan having been cleverly outwitted in that way. Administration wanted that power, but it had been considered my own right, so the obvious solution was to put me into Administration. This resulted in me having to hold both history classes and administrative responsibilities.

Even beyond the vast expectations of others, we even still had expectations the two of us had left self-imposed too. More than taking time off to go visit Aestus, I even have to frequently find the opportunity to visit Izheelq too. More than simply being an inevitable aspect of controlling lunar resources, in line with the foundry's old practices, I also had a certain citadel that I felt compelled to go visit, making sure to bring Ezhyrae with me so that the ersatz there could receive expert care as well. Restoration of the citadel has gone rather smoothly as a result, even though I'd decided that we might as well just leave the citadel as a lunar outpost. Having staff constantly on the moon was just going to help making the cycle of elemental phases all the more easier over the passing ages. Luna's hairpin might have played a small part in the idea of how her presence here might be more than just fate. On the other side of lunar efforts, Rosa was meanwhile working directly with HTAS to perform some lunar cleanup, breaking down the solar shards that had been left there. Apparently, Tristine had been all over the idea too, mostly out of the fascination of the monumental structure that had been used as a substantial energy resource. The girl clearly hoped that the idea could be revolutionized for some new technology, although any success there still remained to be seen all this time later. Tristine was also spending a lot of time back in ATA-LS, considering she once a long time ago had an office up there. Apparently, Rosa had helped out with that too, though I suspect her random visits there were for much more personal reasons.

On the matter of changing times, I've made sure to find time to work with Jhez between our classes to locate that one book again, the one titled 'Unrestrained Destiny, Chains Unbound'. The book itself had asked for a log of the world's changes from a cross-world presence, so I had made sure that it got a complete update. However, the book should now remain nothing more than a historical reference, it won't be getting any new entries. Calling upon the veil to bring outside knowledge to incite change, that's not how things would work anymore. Change can be found in the insight of people too, if they are given the opportunity to imagine it. True chaos shall be working towards this goal henceforth as well, ensuring everything never really goes stagnant. Already, there had been a slight growing miasma of true chaos showing up here and there, the beginning of a new empire. However, as one of the leaders of such an empire, I've ensured that such a project would at least be put on hold for a while. We may be of true chaos, but we still have our own lives to lead, and I would appreciate the opportunity to live it in full. Chaos is itself eternal, our being shall thus exist long after our lives end, true chaos shall have its empire once our time is over. After all, true chaos is nothing without the growing ambitions of the people that fuel it.

Axlnyhqiezrae Qhtyzaexhiezyhan / Korinna Wisteria