Epilogue
Dear uhh& e-Diary? Do I have to say this every time?
Ahem. I decided to start this, even though I don`t usually like putting down thoughts. But all of a sudden, I find I have a lot more thoughts these days. Lots of things have changed in my life.
Anyway, today is my fifteenth Birthday, and also my one-week anniversary with my lovely, silly husband. He specifically took a bit of late annual leave to make sure he had today off, which was nice of him.
But for some reason, Jim is being a loony. He made me a cake with 15+1 written on it and says he`s pretending it`s my sixteenth to sooth his soul`. Whatever that means. I insisted that I helped him to make the icing.
The day after, let`s call it, the baking incident`, that consummated our relationship, we immediately went out to buy a new double-bed. Not a Queen-sized like I used to have all to myself at home, because there`s not enough space in the room; but that`s okay. The important part is being able to snuggle at night for me.
I`m lucky I`m still able to walk though. Well, I have access to a cheat! Muscle fatigue? Cramps? My husband`s magic heals all that! And I think he can keep going for quite awhile as a result. Maybe. I still have to keep trying to find his limits! Though I`m not a complete monster, I did restrain myself when he had to work.
We`ve talked a lot about this other version of the world that he came from over the last week. I looked up things on parallel worlds a lot, and watched some movies about it when he was at work, so I did my background research. It`s a bit of a crazy idea. But if the Arch-Magister told him that was really the case, I suppose she knows best about it.
He also said that he wasn`t talking to his old friends anymore. He went out to meet with them a couple of nights ago, and returned within a couple of hours looking rather sad.
Even though he acted all smooth and said that he`d always prefer the world-line where I was his wife`, and laughed, it made me mad to see him trying to cover up his distress over the fact that they must be entirely different people to ones he remembered. I figured out that maybe all of this was likely why the whole Gavin thing happened, but I decided, in the end, that it really wasn`t all that important that he was a weirdo from two worlds, and I told him so. As long as he doesn`t miss it, and is happy where he is, that is.
When I said so, he ended up crying a bit with me.
I mean, I`m not super-powerful, and in the end, all I can do is help him through his homesickness. I just have to think that he`s moved from abroad to here from the commonwealth or something.
In the end, we also decided not to tell anyone else about this. Let it be a secret between me, him, and the Arch-Magister, who let`s face it, has already probably forgotten.
Brother told me that his link to the Anti-Nobles was mostly low after further investigation, in any case. He was merely a sympathiser rather than a supporter for the most part, and he has now very much renounced that affiliation.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
Speaking of that, it was really big news!
My brother and his wife Alice both got awarded a Sophia Cross Medal for their work in busting a huge cell of the Anti-Nobles, and even capturing Tixannatania, Queen Feinenjeratha`s daughter, red-handed in a plot to bomb the Britannia parliament with necrotic assault devices.
I think the politicians were really happy about that. It finally gave our Empire grounds to formally declare war on The Lemurian League, finding a concrete link between them and the consistent terrorist activities and guerrilla strikes that have hitting us for years.
Now we can send in all the Red-Coats, the elite mage army, along with the Navy and the RAF. Six of the Ten Arch-Magisters have left to go fight abroad, led of course, by Seria of the Dark Skies.
I did wonder why Seria never wanted to take responsibility for it. After all, it must have been the information she extracted that helped my brother prevent a tragedy.
But then again, she looked practically gleeful on the television news reports about us going to war, clad in her full battle dress. Her being a battle-addict who can`t be bothered with the small details seems to match the picture of her in my head, and makes a lot of sense.
Still scary though.
My friends wouldn`t shut up about me seeing her when I told them. Of course, I didn`t talk about the summoning, though; as that`s a family secret.
The crazy thing is, I might have been the same before I summoned her. Its easy to scream like little girls when we see celebrities; but Seria is just too scary in real life. For the first time in my life, it actually made me glad that I`m not powerful like her.
I don`t think that image of her throwing a body aside like trash will ever leave me. I cried a bit to Jim about it one night after it kept showing up my dreams.
I ended up shutting them up in return by talking about all my sexy time until their sick of hearing about it like Kris`s talk about kissing. It did have some effect, though. Fran went off to, in her words: discipline her husbands` poor sexual performance`, which sounded scary!
Well, she made light of it, but it really disappointed her, I think, so its good that she`s now proactive.
As for being proactive, I talked with Jim today about doing some college. He immediately agreed that I should, so we ordered a few prospectuses for the local area. Fran and Sasha were both also interested in hopping in a magical engineering course with me like I hoped, and we`ve now just got to decide which is better.
My mandatory school grades from before weren`t all that great; I did well at English and History, and I was okay at Magic Practice, and barely passed Science through some serious last-minute cramming. I do have to pick a place that won`t mind me making up credits from home if I get pregnant; but there are a few places that specifically cater to freshly married girls like us.
Jim has been wearing protection since our first time. Fortunately, it was a safe day when I pounced on him, I think. I haven`t said anything about him doing it because I guess I do feel nervous about the idea I might have to have a baby like Lily. Who wouldn`t?
I know, I`m still being a coward. I do have to have one before I get old, but we still have a few years, and he says it should be my choice.
So that`s nice.
Anyway, I`m flush on cake and its late now, so I`m going to get to sleep. Tomorrow, I`m going out for a belated party with the girls for my birthday!
I`m excited for my future for the first time in forever, though. There is a lot to look forwards to!