This I wrote after I read "La Mere Coupable" - part three of Beaumarchais' "Figaro" trilogy, to discover what happens to my character, Cherubino, after the opera "The Marriage of Figaro".
I was stunned to discover that he fathers a child with the Countess Almaviva - a boy, named Leon d'Astorga, and is banished by the cuckolded Count Almaviva and sent away as a captain in his regiment, leading a battle in Seville, Spain. Cherubino writes a letter to his beloved Rosina, but before he can give it to be delivered, he is mortally wounded in battle. He reopens the letter with bloodied fingers attempts to write a farewell. Lacking ink, he scribes his final words in his own blood, blurring his own signature with his tears. He dies at age 17.

But if he could have seen his son, snuck into the castle and found his bed, perhaps the ill-fated page boy would have thought this.