[FE10] Letters Home

[runespoor]

Title: Letters Home
Summary: three letters Almedha never sent home.
Rating: G
Game: FE10
Notes: Spoilers for Almedha. I have never hated the 500-words-max rule quite so much.


i.

Dear Father,

I am sorry the only way to settle our disagreement was to disobey you. I do not doubt you must be furious after me, and I have no misconceptions that the message I left before departing must have nourished your rage further, nevertheless I hope you will not burn this letter right away.

In the months since I left, I have seen more of the world that I could imagine even existed. The beorcs are not as weak nor as evil as you described them, Father. I have seen great things in their countries, fields better managed than our own, despite the cold. Their castles are not, I admit, as imposing as the fortifications of our cities, but their towns are swarming with life such as I cannot remember ever witnessing in Goldoa.

I am traveling with a group of merchants; I will not tell you more, for fear that you will attempt to retrieve me.

Yesterday I have seen snow for the very first time.

I do not think I will be back, Father, not before a very long time. I do not think I'll ever run out of things to see here.

I remain your loving daughter,
Almedha.


ii.

Dear Father,

A long time has passed since my last letter; you would not, perhaps, deem it so, but I find that the longer I live among beorcs, the more my comprehension of time fits theirs. How can scores of years not be long, when the children of my companions are dying from old age?

Yesterday the grand-daughter of one of my oldest friends died in childbirth, and the plague is claiming more lives. The plague I do not presume you would understand or excuse, but perhaps that taste of bitterness will explain the drop smudging this line as well as why I felt compelled to write again, after so many years.

I have heard that Rajaion is engaged to be married. I have not, in fact, been in touch with him for almost fifteen years, so please do not be angry at him for keeping our correspondence a secret from you. I have my sources, and am not such an airhead as I was in Goldoa, when I accepted your locks and did not question your rights to the keys. It was Nasir who told me. I wrote Rajaion to congratulate him, and so I do the same for you. You must be so happy, Father; and I rejoice with you.

My news, I'm afraid, will not bring you the same joy, but I wish to let you know, nonetheless.

I am expecting a child.

His father is a beorc, and that alone should justify why I do not hope for a reply. Should you keep on reading, I want to let you know that he knows who I am and appreciates me with a reverence you would not, I suspect, have expected from a beorc.

Ashnard is a man of great qualities; we are well-matched.

I remain your loving daughter,
Almedha.


iii.

Father,

Rajaion is

Comments

[salinea]

ouch.