You are still reading Der Angriff. This is not a joke. There has been neither palace coup, nor an uprising. But it is not a misprint either. Bear with me.
Vladimir Mayakovsky [not famous in your timeline, Culture Minister of Zentropa in timelines 2 and 6, executed in timeline 3, suicide in 1, Secretary of the North Sea Soviet in 4] once wrote:
I know the power of words, I know the toxin of words.
They're not the kind applauded in public.
Words like that make coffins break out.
The letter in the previous post was words. Words like this. Sometimes, somethings breaks the walls of the timelines. Sometimes we know how. And sometimes we don't. But this gives us no choice, so now I have to tell you.
You are 7.
Can you accept that the river of time can be rivers of times? You probably cannot, but please entertain the thought for a moment. Imagine that someone casts a large stone in a quiet stream and the stream divides and multiplies. Until now we knew 6 of those streams. 6 alternate timelines. You are 7.
My timeline is 1. I guess that for everyone his timeline is 1, and trust me, every negotiation in any timelines pales between the effort to reach to an agreement on the enumeration. In the end we had to draw the proverbial straws. I am 1. You are 7.
We did not know about your timeline, until the break out of the letter in the previous post. There are more, that is certain. We have contacted timelines 2,3,4,6 and now you. No one has ever been to timeline 5. No, that is a lie: no one has returned from timeline 5.
We know it exists because things, we can only call them things for lack of better word have come through. There is lot of speculation about 5. Some say it's a really evolve timeline and they want to scare us off. That it is heaven. I belong to the pessimists. Something has gone terribly wrong in 5.
But I digress; do you remember the stone in the stream? It is what we call a point of divergence. Maybe more than one but all our timelines seem to start there: Vienna, 1913. Ratthaus Park. Dusk.
Let me tell you about Vienna.
to be continued...