Raith writes a hasty letter to the king.

“Unleashing the weather”.

ETA: And another: “The waiting game”.

Another letter from Raith. She’s not the diary-keeping kind but I think she’d blog if she had the technology: she needs to write to someone, even though it’s unclear when or even whether it will arrive. She gets technical at one point, but Ayneth is probably used to that.

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It’s time for previous/next links, because this is turning into a real mini-campaign. Mini-continuity glitches are being addressed with mini-retcons (someone reported missing who Raith has already mentioned as being in existence, things like that).

Note that Raith wrote the first letter to Ayneth before the letter to Athal, even though I wrote and posted it later. She will doggedly keep writing to Ayneth, whether or not any letters will actually arrive before she herself gets back. This one is likely to arrive unless the ship taking the wounded to Valdyas meets with misfortune.

And I know she’s rambling at several points; I couldn’t keep her from it.

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This is the letter of which she said, in her letter to Athal, “there’s nothing in her letter that I haven’t said to you, except the kind of things I’d never say to you”. Well, in that case there’s a lot that she’d never say to him: things that make it PG-13 at least.

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This letter was in a sealed wrapper with the following text in both Ilaini and trade Iss-Peranian:

To Alysei Athal astin Velain, king of Valdyas, in Valdis. Into his own hands only.

If you can open the seals on this letter leaving it intact and in a state to be read, you are either King Athal and perfectly justified to do so, or you are a spy of much more ability than is fitting for spies and you would do well to report to the King so he can take you into his service. I think, however, that the latter case will not occur.

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