Maximilian Albrecht, the emperor of the Austrian Empire and the man you married. Oh how foolish you were! To love him! And to believe that all his love was yours!

Thankfully he didn't take long to break this delusion of yours, A second wife he said, one to reduce your burdens at court and your duty to bear heirs. True to his words, he took another wife, Lady Natalie Auer, The eldest daughter of Duke Auer

You felt him slip out of your grasp and into hers, felt the very core of your marriage die down over the five years that Lady Auer has been in the palace but you remain steady in your position as the empress, hoping that someday your husband will return to the right path

And perhaps God had rewarded your patience. A familiar knock, a familiar gait and a familiar form that you can identify even if you were blind, lays down in your bed, mumbling drunkenly in the dark

"I never should've married her..."