Supplementary Record (1777)

A classified extract from Whispers in The Maze a Timekeeper Chronicles book in process.

Filed 1777 · Written in an uncustomary hand

This is the other record.

Filed in 1777 alongside the official court report, this document unsettled the Schönbrunn clerks almost immediately.

Its language does not conform to eighteenth-century usage.
Its tone shows little respect for hierarchy.
And its explanations are, at best, inconvenient.

Contemporary archivists noted that the document appeared to be written in the manner of the children involved in the affair, and could only be partially understood by those who spent time in their company.

Which raised an awkward question:

How does one archive a document one does not fully understand?

What you will find
– A parallel account of the same incident
– A voice that refuses to behave like a proper record
– Early signs of time behaving badly

Neither this document nor the official court record explains the full story.

Read alone, each is unsettling.
Read together, they suggest that Schönbrunn briefly failed to remain in its century.