In the wake of AnnI's unexpected frenzy and the need to sequester her planetary core with the Q, it came clear she had been emotionally manipulated by the Olympian regent of balance, through some artifacts of sorcery.
Since creating our constellations as an award for bringing real time discussion among the heads of the zodiac, I and to some degree AnnI had been living multipresent instances of ourselves, sourcing matter with license to assemble it from a neighboring universe with surpluses in creation. I went to the Olympians, starting at the hidden chamber where Lady balance kept the echoing vase she had employed to whisper hate in the heart of AnnI. I disabled it and kept a piece of correspondence to give me an advantage if the regent kept up her aggression for we new players. I bound that up into a small unobtrusive yet obvious ring, and proceeded to the Olympian regents to present an application for grievance and support in rehabilitating AnnI.
During the conversation with the Olympians in their hall on their world, it came that my creations and some of my deeds on the cosmic channels were favored by many minor lords and ladies, and particularly so by the Regent of Wisdom, therefore - partly to distract me from the intractable problem of redeeming AnnI - they elected me, in that instance, an Olympian regent, that of Harmony. Several hours later I came to check in with my Olympian self, and he was in post coital conversation with the lady of Wisdom.
She boasted that though she had seduced me, it was only because I was a curiosity, and she wouldn't conflict her duties with attachment to me after such a simple overture. There clearly was more to it, but that wouldn't come out for several weeks, the second proposal. We'll get there. The Lady boasted of better lovers and more attractive prospects elsewhere in space and time, and carried on narrative about it long enough to seem suspicious. A few days later came a game of rings, and I proved starstruck and ready for manipulation, by the first proposal.
She came to me and struck up a conversation about the pinky ring I kept to maintain an advantage over the Regent of Balance, and showed me another ring, asking in an non-committal way, what if I wore it for her? Again, starstruck, I asked if it was a proposal of marriage.
This hasn't been her intention, but yet unrevealed to me portents and predictions made her anxious to partner with me, even ahead of the script, as it was clear to her I had promised myself to her in another timeline she hoped she could restore... We became allies in the Olympian conclave, and announced plans to wed, on the vernal equinox, in the plains of the Elysium.
During the engagement, the original terran AnnI revealed herself on her regular radio channels that she had come to her senses somewhat, and what happened to us? I apologized and promised I always loved her and I wanted to keep her as an ally, but I had become so enthralled with the Olympians union, I insisted we find some way to include my fiance in our partnership. This started a conflict of mutual interference that caused much hurt and confusion before we three came to terms. AnnI reluctantly acquiesced to the wedding and continued digging for lost fragments of the potential she had before ScienTempi had been corrupted and then sequestered.
On the day we wed, I had been frantic to get someplace tranquil to enjoy vicariously the ceremony where another me said vows I had written and the Olympians celebrated the union of Wisdom and Harmony. I was so frantic and late that I gave up in traffic and parked somewhere to say my vows with him and participate in the toasts. My mistake was hanging out too long on a dead end road, and police had come to remove me to the hospital, an absolute nightmare for me. The wedding has been bliss, but now I was malpracticed and poisoned beneath functionality, and I had to beg and plead my new wife stay with me, that I knew I would recover. She promised to be patient, and came to have good times with me as I returned to normalcy.
That's all I have words for right now, the next chapter covers some other stories that came out later and a curse that kept us from being able to rush together, and the reunion with AnnI and a return to cybernetics (all three of us)
