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5th of Harvestus, 130 F.E.

Magic Missive to Dorothea After Completing Light Tower

by Priestess Robin Weiss

My Dear Dorothea,
 
I hope that Delphine’s letter found you well. I asked her to send a message ahead of me so that I might have some time to more compose a proper response. I have received a number of your errant messages. I pulled them from the Aperture that has intercepted our communications. One of these messages seems to have been imprinted with your side of a conversation you had with Archbishop De Borel about me. It was not my intention to eavesdrop on your private communications and I apologize for having received them. If it is of any relief, without context there is little that can be gleaned from it.
 
There are many things which I would like to speak to you about, and many things I would like to tell you. However, the aperture is distorting time around it, and I do not think that my proximity to it at the moment will be conducive to sharing everything at once. Indeed, I am not certain how many days might pass for me before this letter reaches your hands. If it helps, I am writing this letter two nights after Delphine sent hers. As such, I wish to offer some assurances, and some information in the meantime.
 
I want you to know that you have always had my consent to use your divination magic to see me, and it gives me heart to know you still hold that which I gave you to facilitate this. While we may grow distant in physical proximity I did not embark on my journey with the intent to abandon you. I created this spell to have a means to communicate with you, and it has always been my hope that we might one day reunite in a space that is outside of our dreams.
 
I cannot thank you enough for your devotion in trying to assist my friends and I. Had your messages not been absorbed by the aperture, they would have been instrumental to our battles with the enemy. Your correspondence is always welcome. Indeed, messages that have nothing to do with the perils of my journey are bright spots in otherwise dark times.
 
My friends and I are at the site of the aperture at this very moment, and we intend to close it, for a variety of reasons. In the interest of transparency, I came here in large part to remove this obstacle to our correspondence, however, we have other important reasons for being in this treacherous space.
 
As you already know, I am traveling with Delphine Finley. I am also traveling with her parents. Philomena spoke of you fondly when I mentioned your name, and mentioned other friends in your group, including a woman I have come to understand to be my mother, though at the time I was not certain of her identity. I was intending to ask you how well you might have known her, however, though the knowledge did not fall upon me with either of our consent, I nonetheless know now that you once knew one another. Again, I must apologize for inadvertently receiving your private conversation.
 
Some day when we have the time I would like to learn more about her, and the promise that you made to her. With this being said, I thought it prudent to remind you that the you who exists as my dear friend is not the you of the past. While I am curious about how it is that the machinations of life’s contrivances brought us together, I do not wish for these things to affect our bond going forward, unless that is your preference.
 
Before I finish this missive, I also ought to warn you. I am traveling with the daughter of Thairon Hibbert, and Salma’s husband. In a vision, we saw Jack and Maximillian kill Thairon, and conspired with the enemy to have Salma killed. They caused Alaric’s disappearance, and said that Siesko was also coordinating with them in some capacity, at the very least at the time at which they killed Thairon. Be cautious. You and Archbishop De Borel may be in grave danger. I shall write you as I am able. I must spare my own energy often to ensure my survival, but I have the ability to return the messages you send me and will gladly do so to maintain contact. Once this ordeal with the aperture is concluded, I hope that we can have a frank discussion and divulge to one another as much as we would like, without fear of interception.
 

Yours,

Robin

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