Arrival

My love,
 
the Above is strange and wonderful. I think you would love it. The air is warm and the wind is tickling my skin. You can see for miles and everything is very bright.
It takes a while to get used to walking in the city. Everyone stays on the landfloor only the birds swim around in the air. I have to say I envy them. I don't understand how the people here can be content with staying on the ground when the sky is so beautiful. Did you know clouds look like the finest foam, soft and fragile. I would love to touch them.
The people look very different from us. Their skin is so colorful, from brown to white some are red or green or gray. Most of them speak the common language and thanks to your lessons I have been able to communicate with them.
I shall now be on my first quest here. In the settlement I arrived in there was a notice board. It told of a plantation infested with monsters called "stirges" and pleading for help for the people that live there as disease has been spreading. I will go there and offer my assistance in slaying these dreadful beasts. I already negotiated with a lovely pair of dolphins who will take me there in the morning. Have no doubt I will send word of my adventures there with my next letter.
I entrust this message to the octopus - you have probably met by now - to deliver and am sure you will reward him for his service.
 
I miss your laughter as there is no sound quite as sweet up here.
 
Always yours
 
Astris
 
 
 
(all of this is written in Aquan)