Fate spun tightly

(Sequel to Intertwined) He wonders, momentarily, what his life would've been like by now if he hadn't had that realization. But there's a bottle of ambrosia with a note in careful Latin, and an assortment of shiny trinkets in a small nest of blankets, and a clock snug against his chest.
He decides that whatever other outcome could've formed for him, he'd chose this one thrice over; and there's a lot of power to the number three.