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“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which we talk about Apathy: how an Empire fell by a thousand papercuts

Good afternoon, dear friend! This post is going to be a big one in size, I had a lot in mind to assemble! Hope you are well, and hope the weather is lovely! I am happy it is another day on the christmas season, yet I also worry that this post is quite big! Anyway, I in advance beg your forgiveness for not writing some words properly, my eyes are bothering me... I hope my point may come across anyway... let us jump to it... There has been a number of bad events over the past weeks. In Brazil, we are closer to the meme "I can't complain about things (or else I may be in judicial jeopardy)" than not. The election here was a disaster, and not because some group voted one way or the other, that is the wrong way of looking at it. Truth is, it was one election with a predetermined result. The evidence over fraud or at least something very eerie happening to the process is enough to, unfortunately, I must tell, because some certainly deserve the shaming, absolve people from any b...

In which we have the part three of the Story! A journey to home!

Hello everyone! Happy Thursday to you! How are you and how are things going? As usual, I wish you the best and hope things are fine! Good afternoon as well! And again, sorry for postponing yesterday's post, Wednesday was a very busy day and I didn't have the time to fully dedicate myself to the post as I'd want to, good news is I have some extra time today, so let us keep on working on our adventure! How's the weather where you are today? Here, it's a day of summer, very hot, everything is melting, just the usual business! There's a holiday coming in, it's a fairly big one! But it's one I just enjoy it for the days off, it's the Carnival Season, one I don't mind much, but well it's nice to rest a bit more! Anyway, we shall jump into the tale!


(...)
He cried for 10 minutes or so, Hannah let he express his pain, but after those 10 minutes she said.
"Let's keep on going, you will find your way into a place known Wirt. No need to cry, you're getting there. Maybe we should try reaching out to your mother as well again, maybe she's taking calls now"
"I doubt that, she's still at work." Said Wirt, drying his tears "Sorry for all of this Hannah"
"You have nothing to be sorry about Wirt, this is not your fault"
"Well... I think we should go to Orangehill district then... My grandmother went to see an apartment there a time ago, it's the best chance we have to find them"
"Let's keep on moving then!"
Orangehill was a nice neighborhood in the south of the city, with lots of residencial buildings, beautiful ones, it was not too close to them, and the car journey was a bit long one, passing through the cherry blossom boulevard, Hannah and Wirt couldn't care for the trees at that moment though, Wirt was determined to escape this nightmare once and for all, as they went through, Hannah did notice some different aspects in the surroundings, stuff that she couldn't miss...
"It is weird how empty the streets are in this city right now, we were supposed to face traffic now at the boulevard!"
"You are right! Whatever is going on, must be affecting this whole place maybe, if only we knew what is happening..."
"Yes, I wonder that too, and the longer we take on this journey, more grey the sky looks! Everything looks in fact! Well, thinking about it won't help us escape this. We should keep on going"
"Yes... God, suddenly everything sounds so messed up, It's been just some moments and I already miss my ordinary life!"
"Of course you do, and don't worry, it's just an impression, things are fine, you will get to a safe place"
"You know, my life is boring, it is grey, but at least I'm stable, I can count things to work, even if my house is not the brightest house and I'm trapped in a course I don't like in college, trapped because I don't know what place to go, have no idea, this doesn't matter now, everything is better than this agony, my house is gone Hannah, I have no idea if I'll find my family again, I have no idea if my mom is actually at her job or she disappeared, I am afraid of even trying to call her again and find out the phone won't reach her, how about dad? Dad is at another town at a corporation meeting, is he safe? Hannah, how unsafe everything looks right now"
"Young man, don't worry about this, it will do you no good, it will paralyze you! We will reach your grandparents, we are almost there, at Orangehill. I am worried too, I have family, I have my parents, my children, I'm a single mom, what they'll do without me, if I'm trapped on this hell forever? I have another job to attend, I have a life... I don't want to be here too.. but we must stay focused, if we lose that we will get even more lost, let's keep on going."
"Hannah, I'm sorry... I hope we can escape this soon"
"We will, don't worry"
After that moment, they stopped talking, Hannah was driving through the streets to reach Orangehill, Wirt was looking for a building his grandmother described to him, the one she had a look at. After a while, the reached the beautiful district, and hopefully he recognize the building rather quickly.
"There! It has greek columns at the entrace, it is this building, we're close!"
Soon, Hannah parked the car in front of the tall edification, but when they went to talk to the doorsman, there was no one there.
"This is weird, and the television, look, all static!"
"We should think now, this place has so many stairs, how are we going to find where they live?"
"I have an idea, my grandfather is not a fan of heights, so it must be a stair close to the floor... My grandmother likes the number 3... We should try that one"
"I guess it's the best we have"
They went to the elevator and waited it to arrive at the ground, when it did, they jumped to it, anxious to see where this was going to end, if Wirt was right. Reaching the third floor, they rushed to the appartment 303, and Wirt pressed the doorbell, and then they had a huge shock when they found the exact same man they saw on the place it was supposed to be the house of his grandparents.
"How can I help you?"
"OH NO, OH NO!!!"
"Sir, what is going on? If you don't stop screaming I will call security"
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?!"
(...)

And this is where things really go south, they found the same person at the two places, is the universe trying to fool them? Will Hannah finally finish this trip, will Wirt finally go back home? What is wrong with the world? Will this come together at some point? Those questions will probably be answered soon, on the next part of the story!
How are you guys liking it? I know, it is way too weird at some points, I like to create weird stuff though, stuff that would never happened in the actual world that exists, one that is only possible in dreams and it comes out of nowhere. Anyway, Thank you so much for being here, you are the very best, dear reader, thank you so much, I'm very grateful to have you here. See you next time!

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