Literature
The Basilisk of Vienna
12th June 1212
6 AM in the morning
The ducal Castle near Vienna
"Your Highness," he broke panting on the steps. "Very bad news," his first words as he had again raised half. It almost stopped my heart. As always I wanted to be prepared for anything that could follow these words, so I began to imagine a few scenarios, while the messenger was trying to catch his breath. Instinctively my first thought: St. Stephen's Cathedral is burning, second thought: the new town hall is burning, third thought: the school of music is bur ... well, that would not necessarily have been bad news, at least for me… I wanted to rebuild it anyway. But I could