>>5877902>>5877936>>5877981>>5877983You stare at the letter for a while. It’s not that you miss Izirina Henzler already. It’s that you DO, a bit more than you want to admit. You just aren’t sure you SHOULD. Your spirits are bound, entangled by fate and by the same mystical rite which transformed the both of you (and Costella Fanucci, but THAT’S a whole other matter). You feel a pull towards her—towards Hawksong. You’d finally been able to get it out of your mind for a time, busy as you’ve been, but now, seeing that letter…
You sigh. There’s no sue. OBVIOUSLY, you pick it up. OF COURSE you open it. You pretty much HAVE to read it. After all, whatever you’re feeling, she went to the trouble of spiriting it here with her <Dimension Door>, or by some other even more obscure method. It’s probably important.
“Ezreal,” it begins, “I hope you are well. I understand that your journey to the Silver Realms is off to a rather remarkable start, though I do not know specifics.”
You pause. How, exactly, does she know ANYTHING about what you’ve been doing here? You feel a strange tingling, and resist the urge to look over your shoulder, but only with great effort. It’s psychosomatic—you know as much. You keep reading.
“My own studies continue, to great success. I have learned a spell to teleport inanimate objects a great distance. After some experimentation, I believe I have found a way to bypass the barriers which I have learned (only lately, sorry!) are erected around the elves’ lands.”
That explains the letter, at least. You wonder if she has yet devised a way to transport herself and other living beings in such a subtle manner. It would certainly have saved you some trouble with the strange, fungal fairies who serve as a magical ‘border patrol’ to the Sylvan (or ‘Silver’) Realms. They’d given you, your father, and the hired guide Laskar Endingray some trouble a few weeks prior, and things had nearly come to blows.
“Our friends and family are fine. Better than fine, in some cases. Costella continues your good work, serving as ambassador for your ‘feycraft’ and your ideals to the non-magical public. I do not know if they really understand or appreciate it as they ought to, but after making her acquaintance more properly, I see why you chose her. She is a very kind person, and they work you have done upon her mind and spirit ahs made her very receptive to some of the teachings I have passed on from my tutors to her.”
Izzy and Costella are hanging out now? That’s… New. Its honestly a little unsettling. Your first (only) lover, and the young woman with whom you are more recently quite close, and for whom your emotions are still undecided…
“She and I discuss you often, of course.”
Yep. THAT makes you feel weird.
