>>5889430[Plans fell through, but may get picked up tomorrow, in which case THAT will be my missed update.]
>>5888795>>5888622>>5888422>>5888334>>5888289You aren't certain what effect the Moon's barrier will have on the enchantment of the envelope. Surely Izirina’s magic isn’t such that she can penetrate a divine blockade meant to keep out evil entities older than extant empire, right? And OBVIOUSLY you’ll have no need to suddenly escape such a sacred place, and the world will have no pressing need of a single half-elf scholar… Right?
(You keep it anyway, just in case)
Before you go, you attend to a few last matters. You might be taking your magic letter with you, but that doesn’t mean you can’t write a few mundane ones. Knowing time is of the essence, you ignore the ongoing festivities except to ask the carolers and revelers for whatever paper they can spare. Parchment as you know it is more or less nonexistent in Dappulyet, to your frustration, but where there are leaves and sharp objects, and where there is will, there IS a way!
…
After a half hour of trying to essentially etch your penmanship into a leaf with the tip of one of Laskar Endingray’s arrows, you rip up the leaf, return the arrow, and give up.
“Ruldolfo… Dad… Tell everyone I’ll be back when I can,” you instruct. “Tell Pearce I’m safe—you know how he worries—and tell Zith-Zi I’ll bring her back a souvenir.”
“They have souvenirs on the moon?” your father asks, somehow more wowed by THAT than the rest of this monumentous event.
“I don’t know,” you admit, “but if I dn’t at least tell her I tried, she’ll never let me hear the bloody end of it.”
You father laughs, and taps his nose knowingly.
“Women, am I right?” he asks, and then pointedly avoids eye-contact with you exasperated mother, whose elven ears overheard his slander.
“Speaking fo women,” your father whispers, “what should I tell, ah… You know…”
“Izirina?”
“I was going to say Costella, but good thinking!” your father replies, making you wince.
What DO you wish to relay to them?
>Just that you’re safe and sound>Some specific instruction or request [what?]>That you love one or both of them [specify who, if you choose this]>Something else 