Initium novum [Completed - being edited/rewritten]

Chapter 51

"Is something going on, Lord Maximus?" I asked surprised why he came.  "Nothing, nothing wrong at least," he said immediately. "I came to congratulate you  personally on for you success. Your mother would be proud of you, that I am sure of." We stepped outside the room, so we wouldn't wake Valeria, and continued there. "Thank you,  Victor." I said. "Tell me something. How many people is on Unora, in all the camps?" "I do not know certainly, something around one hundred millions, but the number can be  very either lower or higher. The records should be in a possession of Generalis Castra  Inspectionem." "A Camp Inspectorate?" I asked. "Yes, they have all information about all of the unorian camps. They run entire infrastructure  of the camps on Unora, but why do you ask that?" "Think, Victor," I said, in a way that it sounded as an command. He gave me surprised look,  but let me continue. "If there are more than one hundred million prisoners on Unora alone,  and we will save only around ten million of them by sending them onto Terra Nova, what will  happen to the rest of them?" "Once the Odyssey is gone, we will do what I told you-" "You will get rid of my father. Then will kill Imperator," I said before he finished the  sentence. "-Yes. Once that is done, we will get rid of political structure of the regime. You saw the  Senators, we have bigger number of supporters than your father and Cato. We will arrest  Cato's loyalists in the Senate once Ragnarök is activated. Once we are in power we will arrest  everyone in the imperial administrative positions and the unorian camps will be shut down,  the prisoners will be released." "What if Ragnarök fails? What then?" I asked him. I needed to know if he considered a option  of a failure and a war. Though, I believed to the voice I had heard earlier in the throne room,  and I planned doing everything in my power to prevent what was coming.  "If they fail," Said Victor, "there shall be war." His voice was quiet, as if he didn't want to  say this at first but then realized that there was nothing else to say.  "Yes... in that case, there shall be war." I said to him. "You have to make sure that it doesn't  come to that, Victor." "Trust me, I am very well aware of that, Antistia." he said with a slow as if cold tone of voice.  "I will do my best to prevent it. We all are." "I know," I said with a calmer voice. "Victor, there is a favor I need to ask for," I said as I  realized that I wanted to ask this last time I saw him, because I wanted to give a second  chance to Ghost, even though he did what he did. "I need to see the Ghost, I need to speak  with him one more time."

"Speak with Ghost? Why?" Victor asked but as he saw the look I gave him, he figured that

maybe it is better for him not to know the reason. "If you need to talk with him, you will have

to go to the Purgatory, he was taken there."

"To the Purgatory?" I asked surprised, because that was where his family was imprisoned,

and now he was there too. I wondered if they knew about each other. "Very well then, thank

you."

"Of course," he said. "Oh, and you should receive a gift soon. A servant should bring it

sometime soon." With that, Victor began to walk away from me. Before I was able to ask him

what the gift should be, he was gone. And so I went back into the room.

There, I went into the bath room, I looked into the big mirror which was above the wash-

basin. In front of me was an image of a person whose life was forever change, in both good

and bad ways, who had found love, who had found a family after losing one. I was thinking

what would be the most possible outcome of the meeting with my Father. I was trying to

determine what it would mean for me and the people close to me.

One thing was certain, I had to go to Unora, because Ghost was there, the people who I