Unexpected circumstances: Making the best of the situation

3rd March 1657

Akhand Bharatiya Empire, Imperial Capital Bengaluru

In a luxurious hotel

"I am deeply sorry, Your Excellency, but your appointment with His Majesty has been cancelled and postponed to the 15th of March." Ganesh, with an apologetic expression, explained To the Russian prince Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov.

"What!"

"Preposterous! How dare he? Does your emperor look down on our Prince, or does he look down on our illustrious Tsarist Russian Empire? What audacity hath he to blatantly disrespect our Prince in such a humiliating way?" Simeon Brezhnev immediately went into a fit of rage as soon as he heard that his Royal Highness's meeting with the emperor had been postponed. What is this if not a sore lack of respect for the great Russian Empire?