Re: Wynna's Correspondences
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:24 pm
A letter, penned with the thin strokes of a quick, learned hand and little time to waste, is left for Wynna at The Golden Quill.
I fear you keep mistaking me for one without cares by the way you pen each correspondence. We may each stand at the opposite ends of society, but my loyalty lies with those who know enough to value what they hold dear, and I hold this land dearly to mine. I would die for it, and so would those who work with me. Were I to ask you this at our first introduction, I wonder what kind of answer you would give - you, a foreigner and a stranger to our lands. So many come to the Kingdom, pledging to work in exchange for food and shelter, but how does one truly thresh the grain from the chaff without a fine sieve?
You have done the Kingdom a favor, and it is no small one. I have spoken to Valroc, he seems persuaded that he may relinquish the life of a swordsman altogether. His state of mind he refers to as the Soldier's Plight - a condition I know well, but to its treatment that medicine seldom accomplishes except to drug the victim into useless stupor. We can only hope that the law can afford him a sentence that allows him to continue living, if life is what he values enough to live it over again. Valroc risks a decade or more of firstmost penance in a labour camp, or exile from these lands, if he is to walk free, but I am confident that the law does its best to be fair to its citizens. The best you can do for him is to be honest when the time comes for questions. For that, perhaps, you should consider it a blessing that you and he call Impiltur home, unlike the savages to the north and the east, or the corrupt bureacracies of the west.
I can only promise that I will do my utmost. You have a talent with words and Sarshel opens its ears to you; perhaps you could consider an autobiography to tell the true story of a man who should be loved by the country he served. If time is of urgency, consider having your message heard in the town square - I am sure there are many who will listen.
- R.