Letter to Integris
To Lord Integris Shadowstar, resident at —, this letter be delivered.
Dear friend, I greet you well, desiring to hear of your welfare and that of your children and all your house. I pray the heat of the summer proved balm to your bones and that the change of seasons comes on gently so that you may return to the south at your own leisure. It is a consolation, at least, that the colors of the Shroud erupt so beautifully this time of year; it is my hope that my lady and I will be able to travel together to witness them, and if so I hope we shall be able to pay you our respects, though as the moon progresses it may become more difficult for her to do so. But I can assure you that all is as expected and we are, as far as can be known, in perfect health, praise be to Halone -- and meet it may be, after all, that I soon have the opportunity to speak with mine old friend in private.
It has passed that one of mine acquaintance, an engineer in the service of the Dufresne Bellworks to which my wife belongs, paid visit to our fair city and was struck with a curiosity about the business of the Athenaeum Astrologicum, their art and the applications of astrology and astromancy. As no family of mine acquaintance is as advanced in those fields as yours, I thought immediately to recommend your house's name to her; therefore, if it is amenable to you or mayhap to Lord Sirus, whom I understand to be advancing his training, I commend this young woman, one Sasamu Samu, to your care. I do not believe her to be seeking any sort of long-term instruction, but if either of you might spare a moment to provide one or two short interviews on the subject, it would please me greatly.
No more from me at this time but the sincere and eternal promise to be of aid whenever and however I may, should you and yours require it in the coming moons. When yours and mine are paths that are not the same, but proceed in parallel, it is my natural wish to make yours as smooth as possible. May the Fury bless you and have you both in Her keeping.
Written at — on this the fourteenth sun of the Fifth Astral Moon of the eleventh year of the Seventh Umbral Era.
Your servant, Rosaire Ledigne
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