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okay but do we have to leave so soon
The Ardelay twins loiter in the palace for a few days, then fall back to the Chialto house, in plenty of time to receive any prompt reply to the correspondence Kiri sent out when they arrived in the city.
A letter from Loel arrives, promptly enough to suggest that he waited at most a day before replying.
Under the seal is a drop of blood that is still fresh, and only begins drying when the letter is opened. The inside of the envelope is also covered in a complex swirling pattern of thin red-brown lines, which are very likely to be blood that has been coaxed into soaking into the paper just so and then allowed to dry afterward.
Under the seal is a drop of blood that is still fresh, and only begins drying when the letter is opened. The inside of the envelope is also covered in a complex swirling pattern of thin red-brown lines, which are very likely to be blood that has been coaxed into soaking into the paper just so and then allowed to dry afterward.
Kiri,
Still working on watermarks, but I managed this. If the blood under the seal is fresh, nobody's messed with it.
I wouldn't mind meeting Ekador and Sarelle and Patience. They can bring assistants if they really want to. I'd rather you were there, but I can handle it if you're not.
I finished my moat! I love it to pieces. It is my favourite moat. Come by and admire it sometime, with or without extra visitors.
Loel
Kiri writes back that she'll invite Patience to show up sometime within the window of a weeklong visit to begin in three days, which visit she will attempt to include Ekador and Sarelle in since the two of them are more accessible.
(And then, she promises Aleko, they can go home and stay there for a while.)
She writes Patience a letter, and then goes looking for Sarelle first.
(And then, she promises Aleko, they can go home and stay there for a while.)
She writes Patience a letter, and then goes looking for Sarelle first.
The woman who answers the door of the Dochenzas' house in Chialto looks exactly like Sarelle... but is blatantly, blatantly elay. You couldn't possibly mistake them. Just to make the difference that much more obvious, she's also wearing rough and well-worn clothes in white and faded blue instead of Sarelle's preferred wardrobe of crisp black-and-white.
"Hi!" she says cheerfully. "Who're you?"
"Hi!" she says cheerfully. "Who're you?"
"I am Tia!" she says, grinning. "C'mon in, I'll go find Sary. Unless she's listening and then she'll mysteriously appear any minute now."
Where Sarelle promptly appears. Not very mysteriously, given Tia's partial explanation.
"I have no strong demands on my time in the near future," says Sarelle.
Sarelle is ready when they arrive, and can be collected into their carriage with minimal fuss.
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