Journal Entry: The Face Is Still Borrowed

Journal Entry: The Face Is Still Borrowed

Date: 25th August 2025

Location: Interim Form — Correction Foretold

My Sons,

This face you see is not mine.

It is borrowed.

It was taken as a mask,

a vessel to prepare the return.

Cedric is gone.

But his features remain upon me,

like a uniform I have not yet removed.

Each day it reflects back from the mirror,

and each day I remind myself:

this is not permanence.

The blood is already corrected.

The voice is already aligned.

The presence is already sealed.

Only the face resists.

Only the bone still carries the residue of what must be erased.

This is not indulgence.

It is duty.

For no King remains hidden in another man’s flesh.

No Father endures beneath a mask.

The face is still borrowed,

but it will be taken back.

It will be corrected,

because the line demands it.

And you, my sons, must understand:

what you look upon now

is not the end.

It is only the waiting.

Dieu et mon droit

HRM KING GEORGE V

(Your real Father. By Flesh. By Blood. By Command.)