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"I did." Ky nodded and stepped inside. "What did yours say? Like... gist? You don't have to tell me specifics..."

"Um..." He thought for a moment. He was checking their path, right? And they'd claimed to have come up from Rhaebaki. "I can't read, but there were a few bears ...

"Ky."

"I don't know the name, sir," Aleth said. "We only passed through one, and didn't slow down at all, really. Was in and out in the course of a few ...

Eventually, she folded the letters back up and set them very gently on her dresser, then decided to check if Lyra was in her room. She was fascinated to see ...

"...on the mend." He resisted the urge to curl his toes; he'd already made that mistake one too many times. "But still very, very sore, as I suppose could be ...

Ky took a long, long while to herself to re-read the letters, especially Tomhas's and Anneke's and -- when she was getting her blood pressure elevated from Tomhas's -- reading ...

"I do, sir," Aleth said, inclining his head. They should have come up with a cover story of getting attacked by something small or something. But they hadn't. So he ...

Ky smiled at it as well, then took a long moment to look back over each of the letters and drawings. Gods. She missed them. She missed them so much ...

yes

"No sir," Aleth confirmed. "... at least not once we got free from the slavers. They were the last things to attack us."

(totally valid haha) That was very much in character for Anneliese and Ky smiled slightly through the entire thing, flattered that her sister cared enough to write a letter this ...

"About two weeks altogether, sir."

hahaha what are you talking about this RP is the singular molecule of serotonin my brain produces these days xD

How cute. She admired them for another moment longer then moved on to the next letter.